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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."

"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."

"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."

"In your winter you deny your spring."

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
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"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."


"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."


"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."


"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."


"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."


"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."


"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."


"We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves."
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