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" Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. "

Albert Einstein

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" The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic. "

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