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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. – Gary Ross

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Most modern science fiction went to school on Dune. Even Harry Potter with its boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion. – Gary Ross

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Religion
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the 50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. – Gary Ross

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Change
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Dr. Strangelove was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just cant believe they actually blew up the world after that. – Gary Ross

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movies
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If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die. – Rand Paul

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Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. – Nelson Mandela

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I think that we could be more careful about what were saying to young women in terms of their expectations. Its unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. – Emily Procter

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Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. – Dennis Prager

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