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" You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are. "

Sophia Amoruso

Amazing

Potential

Think

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Someone

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Silence

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