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Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Deepak Chopra

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Deepak Chopra
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 22
Author
Internist
Motivational Speaker
Physician
Writer
New Delhi district
People
Conditions
Dictatorship
Grows
Insanity
Known
Void
Lives
Oppression
Social
Terrorism
Wells
Ordinary
Well
Meaning
Life
Poverty

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