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“I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.”
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“Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.”
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“If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.”
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“We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States.”
Source : "Why I changed my mind on weed" By Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2013.
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“As for me, I used to be a bird with a gentle white womb, someone cut my throat just for laughs, I don’t know. As for me, I used to be a great albatross and whirled over the seas. Someone put an end to my journey, without any charity in the tone of it. But even stretched out on the ground I sing for you now my songs of love.”
Source : Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press
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“He's complicated and complex, a labyrinth I want to lose myself in. He's my fighter, and I really want to fight to be with him.”
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“Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.”
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“The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.”