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Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.
Martin Seligman
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Martin Seligman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 12
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Albany
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Martin E. P. Seligman
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Martin Elias Peter Seligman
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