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Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

Maxwell Maltz

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Maxwell Maltz
Age: 86 †
Born: 1889
Born: March 10
Died: 1975
Died: April 7
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Physician
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Psychologist
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New York City
New York
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