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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
Stephen Covey
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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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