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Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do.

Christian D. Larson

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Christian D. Larson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: January 1
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Christian Daa Larson
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