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We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet. . . .

Henry B. Eyring

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Henry B. Eyring
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: May 31
Author
Physicist
Priest
Princeton
New Jersey
Henry Bennion Eyring
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