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Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Mobility
Optimism
Enterprise
American
Free
Dream
Promiscuity
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