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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech
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    Albert Einstein
    “If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: absurd, absurdity, hope, idea
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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: freedom-of-speech, paraphrased, self-expression
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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
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    John Milton
    “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
    ― John Milton , Areopagitica
    tags: argument, conscience, freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
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    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    ― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays
    tags: dunces, genius, stupidity
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    Viktor E. Frankl
    “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
    ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
    tags: motivation
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    “I do have a religion; it’s just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: literature, religion
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    “Mankind’s biggest tragedy is apathy. The settlement with inequality, wars, and madness is the mirror of it.”
    ― Stephan Attia, Various Messages
    tags: awareness-and-attitude
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    “You can’t make it to God without interacting with the devil.

    'The Adventures of Catrine and the Devil II”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: humor
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    “There is no amount of money, and there is neither gold nor silver, nor any treasure trove that can compensate a soul for the loss of love.”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: love
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    “Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny.”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: humor, reality
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    “I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.”
    ― Stephan Attia, The Library of Time
    tags: faith
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    “If you wish to slay a dragon you must charm it first.”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: 11-pearls-of-wisdom
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    “The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: naive-realism
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    “Every law has a mirror.
    The reflection of primitive law is religion,
    But the reflection of divine law is literature.”
    ― Stephan Attia, The Library of Time
    tags: spirtitual-growth
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    “No one can defeat destiny,
    But everyone can make peace with it.

    At the same length:

    No one can outsmart destiny,
    But everyone can reason with it.”
    ― Stephan Attia, The Library of Time
    tags: karma-law
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    “Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.”
    ― Stephan Attia, The Balance of Justice
    tags: anarchy
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    “The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the law of the beast, and it knows neither reason nor compassion”
    ― Stephan Attia, The Balance of Justice
    tags: jungle-law
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    “The chief drawbacks of intellectualism are lack of compassion, glib talk, and vain pride.”
    ― Stephan Attia, 11 Pearls of Wisdom: Various Messages II
    tags: wisdom
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    “It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”
    ― Stephan Attia
    tags: moral
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    “When a basic human need becomes a taboo, it is only a matter of time before it turns into a hideous industry.”
    ― Stephan Attia, Aunt Jante Needs You!
    tags: liberty, love, sex
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  • #29
    “But he who feels too much,
    He soars in angels’ tears of joy...”
    ― Stephan Attia, Equinox
    tags: poetry-quotes
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    “The source of beauty in a man,
    It is humbleness and grace;
    Equality is the pearl of a king,
    Justice his scepter;
    Salvation is his crown.”
    ― Stephan Attia, Mythopia
    tags: poetry-quotes
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