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Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

Andy Stanley

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Andy Stanley
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 16
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Atlanta
Georgia
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