„Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.“

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— Charles Manson

As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)

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amerikanischer Krimineller 1934 - 2017

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— Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

„I am everybody's disciple. All are the children of God. All are His servants. I too am a child of God. I too am His servant.“

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— Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886

Quelle: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 867
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„I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.“

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— Walt Whitman, buch Grashalme

Quelle: Leaves of Grass

„Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.“

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— Eugene V. Debs American labor and political leader 1855 - 1926

Federal Court statement (1918)

„They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.“

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— Langston Hughes American writer and social activist 1902 - 1967

"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959)

„I have always been so sure — too sure… But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know…"“

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— Agatha Christie English mystery and detective writer 1890 - 1976

Hercule Poirot
Curtain - Poirot's Last Case (1975)

„People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.“

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— Leonard Cohen Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934 - 2016

As quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)

„Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.“

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— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Letter to Gertrude Natkin, 2 March 1906 http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/53b4cf90-7739-0132-f12c-58d385a7b928

„When I set off in yoga, I had no understanding of the greater glory of yoga. I too was seeking its physical benefits, and it was these that saved my life. When I say that yoga saved my life, I am not exaggerating. It was yoga that gave me a new birth with health from illness and firmness from infirmity.“

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— B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014

Quelle: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.xvii

„I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.“

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— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

1993-12-30 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
Stage banter

„And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself“

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— Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

Quelle: To Bedlam and Part Way Back

„The more I prayed for my enemies, the softer my heart became. When I felt real forgiveness, my heart was set free. If I can do it, all of you can do it too.“

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— Phan Thi Kim Phuc Child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972 1963

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