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If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.

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
Children
Child
Gone
Attention
Intersection
Wrong
Intersections
Wish
Charmed
Keep
Educate
Two
Circles
Must
Fixed

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