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I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

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Max Brooks
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: May 22
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Maximillian Michael Brooks
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Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
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[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.
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