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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. ↗

— Voltaire

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. ↗

— Jean Genet

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

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Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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