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“Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion—a rabid lion—in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it.
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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