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8. The 7 Habits, 43.
9. Charles E. Hummel, The Tyranny of the Urgent, IVP Books, 1994, 6.
10. Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, Houghton-Mifflin, 1896, 113.
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12. Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” HarperOne, 1996, 190.