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We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

Neil Strauss

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Neil Strauss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 13
Author
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Music Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Neil Darrow Strauss
Machines
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Universe
Programmed
Sense
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Matter
Reminders
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