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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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Issur Danielovitch
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I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
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