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It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Bill Ayers

I’m different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I’m thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They’re not different.
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Different Principles Thinking
I’m writing this book right now called Pallin’ Around, and the subtitle is: “Talking to the Tea Party.” And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.
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Exhilarating Frankly Love Talking Writing
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President – that was exhilarating.
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Country Exhilarating Long
I don’t think saying “I was wrong here, I was wrong there” absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.
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Absolves Heaven Thinking
The antiwar movement in all its commitment, all its sacrifice and determination, could not stop the violence unleashed against Vietnam. And therein lies cause for real regret.
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Couse Determination Regret Unleashed
I have an addiction to caffeine.
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Addiction Caffeine Habit
I mean, what’s he doing now? He’s evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ’s sake! And this is a guy – the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he’s our guy.
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Christmas Community Evolving Jump People Sake
I don’t buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I’m an intergenerational person.
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Mythology Persons Thinking
One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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Agency Children Thinking
I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference. Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.
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Morning Night Thinking
I proposed a law that every country where the U.S. has a military base – those people should be allowed to vote in the American election.
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Country Law Military
His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.
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Book Community Kings
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
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Less Shared Should Views
All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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All Filmmakers Librarian One Teachers
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.
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People Regret Sorry
Your body’s always going through changes. It’s fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.
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Body Changes Fattening Going Through

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