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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

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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 most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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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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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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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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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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Music’s a wood you walk through.
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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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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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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
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A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
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