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Stephen Covey Quotes: It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
         

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.


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