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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Boston
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Barbara Jill Walters
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