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Whatever you might say the object is, well it is not.

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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Knowledge
Whatever
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I think therefore I seem to be.
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Words don't mean, people mean.
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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