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Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Anna Quindlen

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.
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the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
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