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The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1925
Born: November 19
Died: 2017
Died: January 9
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Sociologist
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Poznan
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