There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs
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- Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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