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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- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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- The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.