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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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