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When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
Writer
Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Causes
Anyone
Pain
Result
Fear
Please
Keep
Cause
Anything
Influence
Control
Results

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