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Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to break in the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.
Os Guinness
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Os Guinness
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 30
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University Teacher
China
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Mastering
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