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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

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David R. Brower
Age: 88 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 1
Died: 2000
Died: November 5
Cinematographer
Environmentalist
Mountaineer
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Berkeley
California
David Ross Brower
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