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Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

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Barney Frank
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: March 31
Former U.S. Representative
Politician
Bayonne
New Jersey
Barnett Frank
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