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“If I had lived in your time - Alice tells me - I would not have married, much as I loved my husband and my children. I would have pursued a career, become a doctor, travelled the world, broken down barriers and taken up women's causes. Too big an ambition? - she asks with a smile. Women were so repressed and frustrated in their hopes, and most lived in their husbands' shadow, though I did not. Mother was against me [Victoria is listening in the background], she did not understand me and was appalled at my plain speaking and directness of certain aspects of life she found difficult to discuss so openly, which I did not. We were so different. I upset her many times later in life and as I grew stronger in my convictions, I resented more and more her control on my life and distanced myself from her. It was not easy at first, but as her dislike of my actions and the things I did and said grew with her, she loosened her grip on me and let me go.”

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

“History is the same thing over and over again.”

“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“I want to be the bridge. I embrace it. I don't mind being a leader. I don't mind opening the doors. I guess my prayer is that there will be other leaders behind me who will come in and do more than what I've done, and more than what I can do and that this serves as an opportunity to level the playing field in hip-hop. I just want to be able to say "Hey, there's way more going on in life than the club."”

“Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.”

“Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.”

“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.”