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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Vernon Howard

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Courage
Negativity
State
Crash
Whatever
Barriers
States
Quit
Need
Quitting
Must
Destroy
Needs
Inner
Barrier
Thinking
Negative
Halt

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