Thought for TODAY:23rd January 2012

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Hope,love and faith are the three most important surviving needs for a person. We truly are dead without any one of them.

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  1. Anonymous5 March 2013 at 00:30

    Yes we are dead person without it:) Or without it you can be only some baba :D

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