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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.

David Mitchell

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
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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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why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most
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Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.
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The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
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... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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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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Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
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Time is the speed at which the past decays.
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Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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