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As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown people screaming at each other, and I think, well, if we don't get our civility back, we're in trouble.

Emmylou Harris

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Emmylou Harris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Country Singer
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Birmingham
Alabama
Wells
Grown
Well
Educated
Think
Sadness
Thinking
Citizens
People
Turn
Civility
Trouble
Screaming
Turns
Informed
Back
Thoughtful

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