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When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Wealth
Freedom
Nothing
Great
Work
Thinking

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