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“Unless we exercise our power to choose wisely, our actions will be determined by conditions. Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
— Stephen Covey
Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Principle-Centered Leadership (1992), Ch. 11
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