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The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
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