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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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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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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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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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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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... 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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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
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I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.
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