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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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