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"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."

"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."

"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."

"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

"Life loves the liver of it."

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.''"

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

"Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories.""

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

"I believe that every person is born with talent."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

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