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If you want to change the world, change yourself.

— Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

High Times interview (2002)

Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)

Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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