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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Sydney J. Harris

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Power
Except
Division
Creed
Color
Meaningless
Realities
Modern
Relevant
Tribes
Clan
Age
Boundaries
Creeds
Clans
Purpose
Destroy
Sentimental
Remnants
Political
Ancient
Origin
Divisions
Place
Seek
Utterly
Atomic
Reality
Neither
Purposes
Tribe

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