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In my eighty years, i prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, i've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, i've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. i've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and i know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
-Ronald Reagan
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In My Eighty Years, I Prefer To

Ronald Reagan
In my eighty years, i prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, i've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, i've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. i've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and i know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
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