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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
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Motivational Speaker
Writer
Coffee County
Alabama
Persons
Doom
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Surround
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Precious
Time
Otherwise
Life
Spend
Short
Wants
Gloom

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