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Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
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George Walton Lucas Jr.
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