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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
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"There are moments or periods when it would be wonderful to plan something and do it and have the thing only do what you planned to do, and then, there are other times when the destruction of those pla…"
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