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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
Rowan Williams
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Rowan Williams
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: June 14
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