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Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Photographer
Poet
Singer
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Chicago
Illinois
Patricia Lee Smith
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