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The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

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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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The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
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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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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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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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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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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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Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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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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Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
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Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!
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What is poker? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
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What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
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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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