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Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
David Mitchell
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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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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
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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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Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
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If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.
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Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.
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