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We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Wilhelm Reich

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Wilhelm Reich
Age: 60 †
Born: 1897
Born: March 24
Died: 1957
Died: November 3
Academic
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Sex Educator
Writer
Strange
Mastery
Shall
Utterly
Opinion
Experts
Public
Hang
Knowledge
Unknown
Future
Matters
Existent
Become
Authority
Tails
Matter
Longer
Gradually

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