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Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.
Alfred Korzybski
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Alfred Korzybski
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: July 3
Died: 1950
Died: March 1
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Warszawa
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski
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He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.
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Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
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