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You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
Autobiographer
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Omaha
Nebraska
Daniel Clarence Quinn
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