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The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

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