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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Alfred Korzybski

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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
Engineer
Linguist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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Whatever you may say something is, it is not!
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The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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