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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Norman Vincent Peale
Age: 95 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 31
Died: 1993
Died: December 24
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