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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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