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The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…
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The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of…
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There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many…
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Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand…
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
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In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no…
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For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need…
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Free speech is life itself.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative…
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Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve…
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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic…
— Hannah Arendt
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and…
— Salman Rushdie
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The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to…
— Winston Churchill
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The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background,…
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