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No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.
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There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
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