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You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

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Les Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 17
Motivational Speaker
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Miami
Florida
Leslie Brown
Leslie C. Brown
Leslie Calvin Brown
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