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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
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Monterey
California
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Sustained
Authority
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Unthinking

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