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Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
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