"It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully."

-- Julia Cameron

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“If they arenâ€™t hating on you, then youâ€™re not doing anything right. If women arenâ€™t jealous of you, talking about you and cutting you down, then youâ€™re a nerd, and I would never want to be that.”
“Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it invented a pariah state, a leper colony for the incorrigible whose very existence, when tolerated openly, was admonition to all. We queers keep everyone straight as ***** keep matrons virtuous.”
“The right place for the League of Nations is not Geneva or the Hague, Ascher Ginsberg has dreamed of a Temple on Mount Zion where the representatives of all nations should dedicate a Temple of Eternal Peace. Only when all peoples of the earth shall go to THIS temple as pilgrims is eternal peace to become a fact.”
“People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.”
“Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.”
“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.”

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“Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact.”
“Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.”

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