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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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Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
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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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The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.
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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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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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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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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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Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages legitimizes its outcomes gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.
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Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
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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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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear fear engenders hatred hatred engenders violence violence engenders further violence until the only rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.
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Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
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I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
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