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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner

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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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Politician
LA
California
John William Gardner
John Gardner
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