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The human condition is better improved by altering detrimental circumstances and personal perspectives than by trying to alter personal outlooks, while ignoring the very circumstances that serve to nourish them

Albert Bandura

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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
Psychologist
University Teacher
Trying
Serve
Detrimental
Perspective
Nourish
Circumstances
Perspectives
Conditions
Ignoring
Personal
Improved
Better
Alter
Human
Outlook
Outlooks
Humans
Condition
Altering

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