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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

Carlos Castaneda

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Carlos Castaneda
Age: 72 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 25
Died: 1998
Died: April 27
Anthropologist
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Novelist
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Carlos Castaneda
Everything
Behave
Perennially
Nothing
Remain
Juan
Exciting
Rabbit
Behinds
Alert
Behind
Rabbits
Knew
Toes
Sure
Hiding
Though
Bush

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