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Like Lincoln said: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong, and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
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