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Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Lincoln
Nebraska
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Fists
Organize
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Entropy

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