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We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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