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I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
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Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
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