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The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

Mark Shields

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
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