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If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.

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Patch Adams
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 28
Diplomat
Physician
Washington
District of Columbia
Solution
Solutions
Focus
Problem
Never

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