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Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

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Max De Pree
Age: 92 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 28
Died: 2017
Died: August 8
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