“I'm a hopeful but faithless pessimist who thinks that the meaning in life exists in the struggle just to live it. I have a knack for rescuing blind, deaf animals from the mean streets of the city.”

—  Adam Myerson

From his Facebook profile https://www.facebook.com/adammyerson (retrieved August 1, 2018).

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