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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
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Austria
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.
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In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
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It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others.
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The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
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