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"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."
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"Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world."

"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."

"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."
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"I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed."

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."
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