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I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
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Dame Anita Lucia Roddick
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