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When we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN. The moment we throw our life up in the air and give control over to anyone else is when we become slaves.
Source: Towards A Canada Of Light
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