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The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.

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Paul Tillich
Age: 79 †
Born: 1886
Born: August 20
Died: 1965
Died: October 22
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Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich
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