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With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

Og Mandino

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Og Mandino
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 1
Died: 1996
Died: September 3
Author
Writer
Framingham
Massachusetts
Augustine Og Mandino II
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Endless
Drift
Even
Dreams
Meadows
Life
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Loose
Achieve
Mediocrity
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Priorities
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Goal
Goals
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Dream
Strategy
Herds

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