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I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to save the world until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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