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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
Age: 44 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 24
Died: 1941
Died: July 26
Anthropologist
Linguist
Winthrop
Massachusetts
Benjamin Whorf
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