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Other quotes from insane times
GregFL:
"my first reaction was awe. I actually was spellbound. After that first open meeting, my wife and I did not speak during the trip home. Our thoughts were so taken up in what we had witnessed. Some people call it brainwashing. If that's what it is, then give it to me".
A seed parent being interviewed by Staff writer Judy MckNight, St Pete Times, Circa 3/73.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober
--Samuel Stiles
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GregFL:
"I feel so happy, I was so scared. I wasn't honest with myself and my teachers. I love you"
"Love ya Gidget".
A seedling newcomer being forced to give a public confession at open meeting, and the "groups" response, as witnessed by the St Pete Times, circa 1973
Homeschool is self regulating. The school board is not going to have illiterate useless people living in their homes forever if they don't have a working education policy.
--Sisterbluerose
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GregFL:
"I ego tripped today when I stood up and related to the group and got praise for how good I related. My head really got big when John and the other staff members praised my relating".
A newcomer's "private" moral inventory, turned over to the St Pete independent and published for all to read, including the name of the Seed Foster Home (The Phillis Kennedy home).
Step 1. We came to understand that the government is powerless over people's private use of drugs and that the War on Drugs was making the government's life unmanageable.
--Scott Tillinghast
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GregFL:
"we want to open some doors and find out exactly what is going on in The Seed and how they can take one person from one extreme to another. We're going to try to find out how they can almost kidnap somebody and take them without the person having any say-so".
Bod Gephart, chairman of the "The open mind" committee, which planned a demonstration against the Seed St Pete. The committe was formed when his close friend was sent to the Seed and he was unable to contact him.
Time is running out. The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
--Richard Schultes, Harvard University educator, authority on medicinal plants
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GregFL:
"The newspaper articles are what really put the nail in the coffin for the local program".
Claude Greene, Seed spokesman, speaking of the closing of the St Pete Seed, 10/75
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?
--Economist Milton Friedman
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