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The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Gustave Le Bon

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Gustave Le Bon
Age: 90 †
Born: 1841
Born: May 7
Died: 1931
Died: December 15
Anthropologist
Physician
Physicist
Psychologist
Social Psychologist
Sociologist
Nogent-le-Républicain
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Art
Employing
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