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“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or a thousand!” quote by Pierre Boulle — Download Open image

““You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or a thousand!””

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