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Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

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Carl Rogers
Age: 85 †
Born: 1902
Born: January 8
Died: 1987
Died: February 4
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Oak Park
Illinois
Carl Ransom Rogers
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Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.
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