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The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

M. Scott Peck

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M. Scott Peck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 22
Died: 2005
Died: September 25
Psychiatrist
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New York City
New York
Morgan Scott Peck
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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