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Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
Age: 66 †
Born: 1888
Born: November 24
Died: 1955
Died: November 1
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Motivational Speaker
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Maryville
Missouri
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