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The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
Author
Writer
Haverhill
Massachusetts
Nothing
Dropping
Made
Leap
Life
Willingness
Vanity
Knowledge
Order
Become
Everything

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