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You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
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Apologize
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