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Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.
Alan Moore
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Alan Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
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I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
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I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
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