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"The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever."
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"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."
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"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."
"I can resist everything but love."
"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."
"You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value."
"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."
"Fear is the chain still wrapped around a free man's leg."
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"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
"To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit."
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