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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

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
Maslow
Society
Permitted
Purpose
Emerge
Needs
Purposes
Good
Satisfying
Would
Defined
People
Basic
Highest
Healthy

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