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he very word patient implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

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Andrew Saul
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
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Andrew Marshall Saul
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