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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 21
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