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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibl

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldnt possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. Theres a relationship to government about knights. – Harold Pinter

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I mean, dont forget the earths about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? – Harold Pinter

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I dont intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. – Harold Pinter

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Intelligence
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My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. – Harold Pinter

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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. – William Ellery Channing

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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. – Thomas Jefferson

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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. – John Perry Barlow, 1992

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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. – Isak Dinesen

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. – Pearl S. Buck

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I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. Im probably a bad example of an investor. – Simon Baker

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