"Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood."
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"I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was."
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"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."
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"The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you."
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"I'm a Muslim. I've been a Muslim for 20 years. . . . You know me. I'm a boxer. I've been called the greatest. People recognize me for being a boxer and a man of truth. I wouldn't be here representing Islam if it were terrorist. . . . I think all people should know the truth, come to recognize the truth. Islam is peace."
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"You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power."
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"People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."
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"Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action."
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"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course were going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows I think its a great way to bring about animal liberation I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it."
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"If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God."
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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."
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"If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing."
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"I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!"
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"We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything."
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"In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there.""
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"Let go of what you think you need & what you really need will show up."
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"Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life."
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"I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending."
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"We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days."
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"My brother thinks he's a chicken-We don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs"
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