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The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Writer
New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
Humans
Threat
Carelessness
Without
Ignorance
Threats
World
Pride
Hostility
Longer
Stem
Within
Selfishness
Evil
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Hostilities
Nature
Major
Endanger
Human
Survival
Willful

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