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You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.
Greg Graffin
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Greg Graffin
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 6
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Gregory Walter Graffin
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The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.
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If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.
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Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.
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I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
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If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
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