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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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