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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
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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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Do, said Louisa finally, whatever you can't not do.
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
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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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Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
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over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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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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The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
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The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
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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?
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If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
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