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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
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