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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. – Rowan Atkinson

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But, actually, so many of the clerics that Ive met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. – Rowan Atkinson

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Society
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Rowan Atkinson
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Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing. – Rowan Atkinson

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funny
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Rowan Atkinson
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I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the 50s and 60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mothers Morris Minor. I drove it around my fathers farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years. – Rowan Atkinson

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car
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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If you want total security, go to prison. There youre fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Freedom

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. – Ramana Maharshi

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Freedom

Human beings crave freedom at their core. – John Ensign

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Freedom

Theres a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didnt – and Jamaican stories. – Neil Gaiman

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Freedom

Random Quotes

Government shouldnt tell you whom to marry. – Michael Bloomberg

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Government

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Singing

Men mourn for what they have lost women for what they aint got. – Josh Billings

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Women

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns… and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. – Clifton Fadiman, c.1955

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Quotations