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The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

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Philip Pullman
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: October 19
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