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Vision is a picture of a desired future a picture of something that I don't possess right now, but it is something I want to see and experience, and something I want the people I am leading to experience.
John C. Maxwell
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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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