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To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

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Daniel Gilbert
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 5
Psychologist
University Teacher
Writer
the United States of America
Dan Gilbert
Daniel Todd Gilbert
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