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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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