<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="jim stovall " class="alignleft" />More than virtually any other animal, horses have impacted the way we humans have lived throughout most of recorded history.  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