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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"
"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."
"Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important."
"In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist."
"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."
"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
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"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me."
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
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