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If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

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Farley Mowat
Age: 92 †
Born: 1921
Born: May 12
Died: 2014
Died: May 6
Author
Biologist
Environmentalist
Writer
Farley McGill Mowat
Personality
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Going
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Gimmicks
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Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
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After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.
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I believe in God the way my dog does
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The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.
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Don't let the facts interfere with the truth.
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I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.
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And this is what happened, ands this is why the caribou and the wolf are one for the caribou feeds the wolf, but it is the wolf that keeps the caribou strong.
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I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
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Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away
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