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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Escape
Prison

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Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.
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We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
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Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.
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