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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."


"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."


"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."


"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."


"It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."


"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
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