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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.
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The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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