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Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Theologian
Writer
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Unblemished
Hardly
Tragedy
Youth
Much

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