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The everyday difficulty is to use words "pure and simple," without getting entangled in their emotional lives.... The scientist is to a large extent freed from this temptation. He knows very well the danger of using words.

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

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John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

Born: June 26, 1906
Died: January 18, 1985 (aged 78)
Bio: John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden Committee whose report, recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality, was published in 1957.

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