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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#feel #i #music #people #physically

It's not being marketed as a gay show by a gay person. It's just Ellen DeGeneres. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ellen #gay #just #marketed #person

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? ↗

— William O. Douglas

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. ↗

— John Ruskin

#arched #every #looks #out #poetry

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. ↗

— John Ruskin

#haughty #simple #which

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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