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You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
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Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
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