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It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they’re not easy, nature didn’t give them to us - we have to learn them.

Paul Ekman

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Paul Ekman
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 15
Anthropologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Opinion Journalist
Psychologist
Sociologist
Teacher
University Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
Responsibility
Learn
Easy
Didn
Nature
Become
Emotionally
Give
Intelligent
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Skills

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