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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Mixture
Mixtures
Deadly
Ignorance
Pride
Power

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