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People are not evil they are schlemiels.

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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
Evil
People

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Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
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Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
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Common sense means living in the world as it is today but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
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The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.
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When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.
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The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'
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Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work.... A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after all, come sometimes to anyone. But, so to speak, to take up residence on the high plateau .... that is another matter altogether. That tends to be a lifelong effort.
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We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.
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There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.
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We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.
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A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
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In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.
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