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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Quentin Crisp

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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
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Denis Charles Pratt
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