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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: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
Persons
Consideration
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Solitude
Boring
Empty
Worth
Silence
Anything

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