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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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Walter Leland Cronkite
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Success
Inspirational
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Accountability
Destroying
Permanent
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