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My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Environmentalist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Edward Harrison Norton
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