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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."
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