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What Simone Weil said politics has meant all along, which means that you fight for 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent, that you avoid golden-age thinking and romantic melancholy and you just keep pushing.
Robert Hass
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Robert Hass
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: March 1
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San Francisco County
California
Robert L. Hass
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