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The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.
Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder
Age: 78
Born: 1945
Born: November 12
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New York City
New York
John Tracy Kidder
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