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Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
George H. W. Bush
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George H. W. Bush
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 30
41St U.S. President
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