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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

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Gambling

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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Hell

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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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Speech (freedom of)

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