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Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

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
Tears
Disturbing
Conditions
Weapon
Called
Cooperation
Water
Extremely
Means
Useful
Power
Condition
Mean
Slavery
Reducing
Weapons
Complaints

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