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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

Erich Fromm

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Erich Fromm
Age: 79 †
Born: 1900
Born: March 23
Died: 1980
Died: March 18
Philosopher
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Frankfurt/Main
Something
Thinks
Things
Kill
Men
Except
Time
Learning
Thinking
Loses
Modern
Modernism
Knowledge
Quickly
Doe
Gains

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