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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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