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Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

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Sigmund Freud
Age: 83 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 6
Died: 1939
Died: September 23
Essayist
Neurologist
Philosopher
Psychiatrist
Psychoanalyst
Psychologist
Freiberg
Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Freud
Life
Situation
Situations
Force
Fellow
Lives
Fellows
Individual
Forces
War
Murder
Right
Shame
Obliging
Every
Promise
Destroys
Men
Full
Manhood

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