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these books changed me. They are the vines I swung from to find my way through the jungle, one leading to the next until I found my way out.
“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.”
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“There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Power.”
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
― Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."
[Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)]”
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[Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)]”
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“Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.”
― The Heart of a Woman
― The Heart of a Woman
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