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You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.

Derrick Jensen

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Derrick Jensen
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: December 19
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Environmentalist
Novelist
Philosopher
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