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Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

Jacqueline Novogratz

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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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the United States of America
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I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.
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