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We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
Clergyman
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Rabbi
Theologian
University Teacher
St Pancras
London
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