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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
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Vienna
Austria
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