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If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity you lack the will to persevere.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
Academic
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Face
Setbacks
Faces
Setback
Without
Persevere
Life
Powers
Adversity
Easily
Lack
Confidence
Succumb

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