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"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"

"Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways."

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."

"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."

"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."

"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail."

"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."

"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"
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