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Ali Sina Philosopher, Writer
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"There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?"

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Thousands of children are killed by handguns in the United States each year. What is that about? What are we doing? We accept that? And we accept the presence of these weapons that are in silos and on submarines and airplanes? If any madman gets hold of them - and certainly there are madmen out there who will figure out how to get hold of them, they always have - what are we even making such things for?"

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change."

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Veronica Roth Author
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"I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing."

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