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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
Nick Harkaway
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Nick Harkaway
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
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Nicholas Cornwell
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