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People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

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Clarence Thomas
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: June 23
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And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
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