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When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Safety
Careful
Wind
Lives
Live
Cautiousness
Caution
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Priorities

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