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For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

Michael Josephson

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Michael Josephson
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 10
Motivational Speaker
Philosopher
Sense
Others
Thankful
Many
Fully
Really
Debt
Things
Gratitude
Never
Paid
Therefore
Comes

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