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“I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.”
Source : "Joe Strummer: Putting a Scare Into The Hearts of All Things Corporate". Interview with Mariah Hasagawa, CRCRadio.net, 2002.
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“Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.”
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“If you're in a relationship with someone who does not honor or respect you, I want you to know you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help.”
Source : "Obama, Katy Perry team up against domestic abuse at Grammys" by Brooke Axtell, www.reuters.com. February 9, 2015. 
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“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
Source : Diary entry, April 15, 1836.
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“Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.”
Source : ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”
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“I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.”
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“If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.”
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“A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.”
Source : "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.
