"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."

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"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."

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"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all."

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"A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own."

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"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."

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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."

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"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."

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"But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper."

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