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"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
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"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."
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"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."
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"You're not free, until you get rid of I-myself-me; and let enter 'That', which, the sages call "Thee"."
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"It's the duty of every man to free himself. Never accept to live an underdog's life in god's world."
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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."
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"A lot of people us the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I need fifteen minutes of Freedom."
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."
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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
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"After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
Talent
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
Earth
"Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
Creativity
"When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed."
Creativity
"That's the attractive thing about war, said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something."
War
"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
Emotion
"We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an Afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community."
Belief
"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
Philosophy
"The mind reels."
Psychology
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