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I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.
Dick Van Dyke
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Dick Van Dyke
Age: 98
Born: 1925
Born: December 13
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