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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger
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Karl A. Menninger
Age: 96 †
Born: 1893
Born: July 22
Died: 1990
Died: July 18
Academic
Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Topeka
Kansas
Karl Augustus Menninger
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