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The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Certainty
Opposite
Opposites
Doubt
Faith

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