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Anthony Giddens Quotes: The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
         

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.


Anthony Giddens
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