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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.

Gordon Allport

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Gordon Allport
Age: 69 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 11
Died: 1967
Died: October 9
Psychologist
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Montezuma
Indiana
Gordon Willard Allport
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