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I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: June 5
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Charles John Klosterman
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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
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We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.
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