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We must understand love we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.

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
Understand
Lost
Else
Able
Predict
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Hostility
Love
Suspicion
World
Create
Teach

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