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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Uninterested
Sloth
Deaf
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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