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What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

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Hugo Chavez
Age: 58 †
Born: 1954
Born: July 28
Died: 2013
Died: March 5
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Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
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I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.
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