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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

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Bob Hope
Age: 100 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 29
Died: 2003
Died: July 27
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I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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