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“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking
As quoted in Behavior in Organizations : Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work (1995) by Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron, p. 371
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