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The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Martin Seligman

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Martin Seligman
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 12
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Psychologist
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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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