"There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success."

-- Jim Hightower

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“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”
“You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.”

Source : "Weekend Booking: Helen Caldicott" by John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. August 9, 2016.
“I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.”
“Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.”
“As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.”
“The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.”
“I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.”

Source : "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.
“And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.”

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