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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

Edwin S. Shneidman

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Edwin S. Shneidman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 15
Psychologist
Sociologist
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Clearer
Unfair
Perception
Lived
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Hindsight

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