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If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
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Motivational

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