"History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead."

-- Voltaire

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“I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft.”
“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.”

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“Looking at something changes it.”
“Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.”

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“He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.”
“I call the transformed world toward which we can move â€˜sustainable,â€™ by whichÂ I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. IÂ mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years,Â toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship,Â and spiritual realization.”
“When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.”
“I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.”

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