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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.
Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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