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Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.
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To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
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Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
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