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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern

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Zig Ziglar
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Approximate author period: c. 1969 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1926 to 2012; Wikidata Q373830, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373830 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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