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If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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Nothing
Done
Thinking
Attached
Change
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