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“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be... In fact it can be said that the possibilities of human nature have customarily been sold short.
— Abraham Maslow
Psychologist
Toward a Psychology of Being (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962), p. 5
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