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Invest in the process rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

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Theodore Isaac Rubin
Age: 95 †
Born: 1923
Born: April 11
Died: 2019
Died: February 16
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Psychiatrist
Brooklyn
New York
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