"As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
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"People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother."
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"People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower."
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"The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm."
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"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate."
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"The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?"
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"I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul."
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"The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave."
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"The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it."
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"Deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people."
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"Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons."
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"But the challenge is always the same - whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure."
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"I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast."
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"I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a global consciousness of something, then that becomes a quote-unquote "truth" for everybody. You know, "This is what happens in the Kennedy family." "This is what happens with the Hemingways." And the more people believe in it, the more it kind of resuscitates the problem; it keeps bringing life to this idea that a curse exists that you can never get out from under."
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"People know I was the last true champion."
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"It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God."
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"Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all."
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"Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things."
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"If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God."
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"Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States.""
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