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There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

Bob Brown

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Bob Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 27
Australian Senator
Environmentalist
Physician
Politician
Oberon
New South Wales
Australia
Robert James Brown
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