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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
War
Inhuman
Human
Antiwar
Humans
Cooperation
Must
Appear
Walk
Walks
Path
Peace
Loathsome

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