“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

— Malcolm Azania, book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain

Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 258)

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Canadian politician 1969

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“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”

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