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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

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Robert Foster Bennett
Age: 82 †
Born: 1933
Born: September 18
Died: 2016
Died: May 4
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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