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My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
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Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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