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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

Tom Rachman

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Tom Rachman
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
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