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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.

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Bill Bradley
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 28
Basketball Player
Businessperson
Former U.S. Senator
Politician
Senior Advisor
Writer
Crystal City
Missouri
William Warren Bradley
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