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All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Viewpoints
Heartache
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Wrong

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One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
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All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
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Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
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The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
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