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We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

Richard Bach

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Richard Bach
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 23
Aircraft Pilot
Military Officer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Prosaist
Writer
Oak Park
Illinois
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Navigate by the same star, unwilling to change, and you find yourself not only off-course but lost.
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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
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The only true law is that which leads to freedom.
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