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If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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The business end of business has never interested me.
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I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.
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America is just as much to blame as a lot of our enemies.
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