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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

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Muhammad Ali
Age: 74 †
Born: 1942
Born: January 17
Died: 2016
Died: June 3
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Cassius Marcellus Clay
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