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If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
Sr.
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