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A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

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Ted Dekker
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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Silence
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I BELIEVE!!!!!!! - Johnny
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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