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"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."

"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."

"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye."
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"A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication."

"Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product."

"There are thousands and thousands of free programs available for people of any income level."
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