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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

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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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Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
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Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
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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 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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I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
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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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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 our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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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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If swans weren't real myths'd make up.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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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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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
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Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
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