Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes."
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Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
Bertrand Russell
Philosopher, Mathematician
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."
Ram Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."
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"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
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"Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction."
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"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
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"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window."
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"I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come."
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"The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us."
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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."
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"It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing."
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"I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch."
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"All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel."
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"It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect."
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"Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure."
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"Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless."
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved."
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"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
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"Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay."
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"Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies."
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"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."
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