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"Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second."

Time, First

"Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking."

Being, Mind, Talking

"There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma."

People, England

"Take what you can use and let the rest go by."

Society, Rest

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case."

People,

"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."

Fun, Funny

"When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it."

Society, Columbus, First, Forbidden, World

"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around."

Lie, Shakespeare, Writing

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy."

Energy,

"You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you."

Society, Sky, Sun

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"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Society, Mankind, Needs, Self, State

"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Society, Intelligence, Knowledge, Fact, Mind

"Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Society, Blush, Man, Old, Pride

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Society, Government, Press, Will

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Society, Country

"I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

Society, People, Heart, Courtesy, Old

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Society, Old

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

Society, History, Sex, Progress, Ugly

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."

Mark Twain, American Author

Society, Now, Poverty

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Society, Sympathy, Feelings, Thoughts, Habits