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A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim
Born: Apr 15, 1858
Died: Nov 15, 1917

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