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Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

Milton H. Erickson

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Milton H. Erickson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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