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"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
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"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
Politics
"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion."
Religion
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
Politics
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Government
"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
Being
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
Quality
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
Patriotism
"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
Heart
"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
Liberty
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