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Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.
Edwin Newman
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Edwin Newman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 25
Died: 2010
Died: August 13
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