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“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
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“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Collected Essays
― Collected Essays
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― The Life of the Mind
― The Life of the Mind
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