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Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.

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
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Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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There is no such thing as talent. There is pressure.
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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
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