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How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

Anita Roddick

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Feminist
Organizational Founder
Littlehampton
West Sussex
Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
Dame Anita Roddick
Anita Lucia Roddick
Anita Lucia Perella
Face
Faces
Spirit
Something
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Inconsequential
Cream
Selling

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