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What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

Vernon Howard

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Window
Open
Break
Cooling
Part
Flows
Trying
Breeze
Mind
Windows
Really
Hot
Always
Flow

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