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To be human means to feel inferior.

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
Humans
Feel
Feels
Mean
Inferior
Inferiors
Humanity
Means
Human

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