Quote by Colin Powell
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outr

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didnt come back, and make sure the Taliban wasnt resurging. It didnt work out. – Colin Powell

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A dream doesnt become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work. – Colin Powell

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Speech (freedom of)
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie

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One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that. – Martina Hingis

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so youre relying on the business. – Mia Wasikowska

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Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order. – Josiah Royce

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