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Edward Sapir

Birthday: January 26, 1884
Deathday: February 04, 1939
Category: American Scientist
Type: Scientist
National: American

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I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the...

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate...

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It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts...

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd...

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So far as the advocates of a constructed international language...

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