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It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
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Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
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