“That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.”
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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