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In a climate of fear, people worry about repression and so do not dare voice their opinions freely. Hate speech and shitstorms also create fear and thus hinder the free expression of opinions. We even fear thinking. We seem to have lost the
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“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
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“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
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“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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