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"When Whitman wrote, "I sing the body electric," I know what he meant I know what he wanted:to be completely alive every moment in spite of the inevitable.we can't cheat death but we can make it work so hard that when it does take us it will have known a victory just as perfect as ours."
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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."

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"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."

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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."


"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."


"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."


"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."


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"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."
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