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It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

Wilfred Bion

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Wilfred Bion
Age: 82 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 8
Died: 1979
Died: November 8
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion
Thought
Employed
Much
Communicate
Forgotten
Gift
Centrally
Speech
Elaborated
Lying
Dissimulation
Purpose
Concealing
Often
Communicating

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