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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
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