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People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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