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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.
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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
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