"A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution."

-- Jane Jacobs

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“Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.”
“[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?”
“Got demons on both shoulders.”

Source : Song: Why We Die, Album: Anarchy, 2000
“Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.”

Source : "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.
“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be openÂ—to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.”
“It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.”
“Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.”

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