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Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Thomas S. Monson

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Thomas S. Monson
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 2
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Thomas Spencer Monson
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