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If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know.

Bill Cosby

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Bill Cosby
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 12
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