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“What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at "what is" from a position of thinking "what should be.”
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- Source:
- p. 16
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e568863ecdec8180dabd8fe068b9527d068b92f17749030e9c512716fd10512f
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