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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Mark Twain, Noteb

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

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Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned. – Heinrich Heine

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Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. – Thomas Bowdler

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. – Michael Polanyi

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