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Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
Author
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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