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If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

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Peter Lynch
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 19
Businessman
Financier
Investor
the United States of America
Zero
Gonna
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Thermometer
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Minnesota
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