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Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
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an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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