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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
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