"Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts."

-- Bill Walton

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“The fact that Cornish exists at all is just incredible as is the work that people are doing down there, it's such an important part of who people are.”

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“The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.”
“Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?”
“I just come and talk to the plants, really--very important to talk to them, they respond I find.”
“There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.”
“The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other people in the world. This gets them focused on the wrong things, of course, but it has been a tried and true way of deflecting class struggle, something I don't think Marx didn't fully anticipated. The education system, and the whole culture really, has a lot to do with how these feelings are transmitted to each new generation. When parents say their kids were heroes when they died for nothing in Iraq, you can see the power of this.”
“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
“I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.”

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