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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

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Edward T. Hall
Age: 95 †
Born: 1914
Born: May 16
Died: 2009
Died: July 20
Anthropologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Webster Groves
Missouri
Edward Twitchell Hall
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