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What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
Sargent Shriver
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Sargent Shriver
Age: 95 †
Born: 1915
Born: November 9
Died: 2011
Died: January 18
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Robert Sargent Shriver
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