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Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
Neal Stephenson
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Neal Stephenson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 31
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Neal Town Stephenson
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