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We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.
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