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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

— Jack Layton

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Released upon his death.

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Philosophy

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This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.

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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.

We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.

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Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

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John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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