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A similar cycle has recurred throughout church history. Christians present an attractive counterculture until they become the dominant culture. Then they divert from their mission, join the power structure, and in the process turn society against them. Rejected, they retreat into a minority subculture, only to start the cycle all over again.
- Philip Yancey
I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand
- Jack Kerouac
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.
- Abbie Hoffman
I read R.D. Laing, I read Victor Frankl. Anything by Ken Kesey or Peter Matthiessen, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, R. Crumb, Bob Dylan. These sacred texts are passed from one hand to another like relics of a religious past or harbingers of a new faith.
- Steven Pressfield