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You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.
Kirk Douglas
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Kirk Douglas
Age: 103 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 9
Died: 2020
Died: February 5
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Amsterdam (city)
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Issur Danielovitch
Izzy Demsky
Isador Demsky
Issur Danielovich
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I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts.
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You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity.
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We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.
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When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
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The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.
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