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The only thing you can do about memory is just be very humble about it because it may not have much to do with reality.

— Joan Baez Joan Baez Interview (2009)

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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Daybreak (1968)

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Daybreak (1968)

When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh

in the Song for Bangladesh (1971)

Blessed are the persecuted
And blessed are the pure in heart
Blessed are the merciful
And blessed are the ones who mourn

Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki Reginald (1904)

Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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