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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Admire Charity Erect Giving
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You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

Also Anything Condemned Reated
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Against Beneath Crush Down
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

Beyond Cannot Everybody Existence
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Class Country Discover High
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Afterwards Both Cleaning Exhaustion
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Before Beware Finds Hard
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Center Close Edge Going
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Bound Freedom Living More
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Anybody Around Different Earth
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

About Anyway Beethoven Compose
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Access Always Boxes Century
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Almighty God God Almighty Hand
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Beauty Becomes Comfort Enlightenment
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.

Because Entertainment Fan Game
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

Condition Event Fact Label
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Avoid Avoided Deal Great
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

Belongs Class Culture How
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Also Breakdown Death Enslavement
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Behavior Experience Gets Labeled
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True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
Heart Mind Pocket True
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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

About Away Being Ends
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I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

All My Life Always Anything Been
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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Like Moon Shine Stars
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Art Being Believe Call
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

Another Demanded Everyone Instead
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When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Come Drowning Foresight Help
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The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Autograph Cab Cab Driver Driver
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Dreamer Hope Imagine Join
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Accept After Cupboard Get
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You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

Bastards Beatles Biggest Earth
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Answer Did Gave Glimpse
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Beatles Crow Discover Generation
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I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

Believe Buddha Call God
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Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Almighty God God Almighty Loser
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Any Artist Express Feel
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Being Concert Did Eye
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Been Behind Cliche Eternal
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Believe Dragons Dreams Even
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Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Being Being Rich Enough Get
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If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

Another Berry Call Chuck
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Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Answer Flower Got Grow
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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Answer Answers Believe Claimed
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You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Change Changing Death Life
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God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Ball Believe Boldly Court
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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Cannot Christ Church Committed
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I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

Corner Could Full Go
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