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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.
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