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Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Emotions
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Life

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