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"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."
"And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."
"Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality."
"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life."
"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."
"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad."
"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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