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People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way.

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Serj Tankian
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: August 21
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
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My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
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