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Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.
Alvin Toffler
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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
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