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We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
Jock Sturges
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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.
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