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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
Donald King
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America
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People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.
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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
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