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God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as inde

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. – Rebecca West

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being ones own Trojan horse. – Rebecca West

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mom
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Rebecca West
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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History
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Other Quotes from
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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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Censorship

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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Censorship

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. – Dick Cavett

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Censorship

You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd

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Censorship

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The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

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I wouldnt compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I dont feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most peoples story. I dont like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me. – Naima Adedapo

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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. – Robert Southey

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I dont set out to say anything very important. – Brian Eno

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