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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.

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Joel Salatin
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: February 24
American Farmer
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