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- Author's profession: Activist
- Nationality: american
- Born: November 29, 1811
- Died: February 2, 1884
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...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.
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