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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.”
― Hocus Pocus
― Hocus Pocus
“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“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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