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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

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
Individual
Inevitability
Doe
Accordance
Every
Suffers
Long
Peculiar
Acts
Fate
Suffering
Understand
Teleology

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