"All forms of government are pernicious, including good government."
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"Love flowers best in openness and freedom."
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"The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started."
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"Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy."
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"WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy condition? Two ways"
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"The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich."
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"In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal."
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"We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement."
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"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature."
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"A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time."
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"If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm."
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"Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way."
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"I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever."
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"Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions."
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"There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love."
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"I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society."
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"Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late."
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"Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?"
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"In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse."
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"Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism."
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