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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Differences
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Understand
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States
Sameness
Equality
Difference

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