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Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Value
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Cultures
World
Privilege
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