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Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.

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Frank Gehry
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 28
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