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The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

Guy Finley

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Guy Finley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: February 22
Musician
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