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Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
Ralph Nader
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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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