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By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
Kevin Rudd
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Kevin Rudd
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 21
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Kevin Michael Rudd
The Honorable Kevin Rudd
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