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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
Columnist
Journalist
Radio Personality
Washington
District of Columbia
John Calvin Thomas
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
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