"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

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"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."

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"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

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"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

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