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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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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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Do ants get headaches?
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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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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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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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.
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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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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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I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
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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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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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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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The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.
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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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