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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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California
John William Gardner
John Gardner
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
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The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
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