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Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.
Vernon Howard
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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Massachusetts
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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.
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Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.
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