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Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's thechoices we make that define who we really are.

Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern

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Charles de Lint
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Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Charles de Lint: documented birth year 1951; activity date not established. Wikidata Q1066587, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066587 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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