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Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

William J. H. Boetcker

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William J. H. Boetcker
Age: 88 †
Born: 1873
Born: January 1
Died: 1962
Died: January 1
William John Henry Boetcker
Trying
Conditions
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Change
Human
Humans
Appalled
Without
Existing
Heart
Waste

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