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" If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy. "

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" We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic. "

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