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To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

Henry B. Eyring

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Henry B. Eyring
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 31
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Physicist
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Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Bennion Eyring
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