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Everybody is within reach of a television set. And so they're all politicized, and they're all stimulated, and then they have these desires, pleasures, hates, resentments, and so on, and they're reacting instantaneously.
Brent Scowcroft
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Brent Scowcroft
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: March 19
Died: 2020
Died: August 6
Former National Security Advisor
Geopolitician
Military Officer
Politician
Ogden
Utah
Within
Hates
Desire
Resentment
Hate
Pleasures
Desires
Instantaneously
Reach
Politicized
Television
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Everybody
Stimulated
Pleasure
Reacting
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