"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."
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"My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'"
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"If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’."
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"I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes."
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"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them."
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"If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . ."
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"I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from."
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"I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering."
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"If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised."
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"It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world."
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"You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection...you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is."
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"It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth."
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"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
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"For me, wearing lingerie isn't about anyone else but me. If I dressed for others I would be a miserable person."
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"You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living."
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"REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band."
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"My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me."
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