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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

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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Psychologist
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Acting
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Become

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