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Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen o

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Smoking
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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Illusion
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. – Corazon Aquino

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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. – Anish Kapoor

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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom. – Oriana Fallaci

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison

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I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world. – Steve Case

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