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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Talk
Desire
Shameless
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Fulfillment
Mind
Subtle
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