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The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.
Leonard Sweet
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Leonard Sweet
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 1
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