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“Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession”

Quote by Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

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Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

Robert S. Jepson, Jr., born in 1942, is an American individual whose profession is unknown. more

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