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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
Maynard James Keenan
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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
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Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
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