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Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'
Garry Wills
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Garry Wills
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 22
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Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.
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