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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Eric Berne

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Eric Berne
Age: 60 †
Born: 1910
Born: May 10
Died: 1970
Died: July 15
Academic
Military Physician
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Montreal
Quebec
Eric Lennard Bernstein
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