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There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about.
Cass Sunstein
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Cass Sunstein
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 21
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