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I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

Fred Wilson

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Fred Wilson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 20
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