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Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

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Juan Williams
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Journalist
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Juan Antonio Williams
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