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It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are bad, and are going on right now, somewhere far away. We think, Well, what are you gonna do? In a way, that little instinct, that What are you gonna do? is the most dangerous thing in the world.

Ben H. Winters

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Ben H. Winters
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 14
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