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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimis

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the wills freedom after it. – Aldous Huxley

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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, whats more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. – Aldous Huxley

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Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. – Aldous Huxley

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – John F. Kennedy

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The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society. – Henrik Ibsen

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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,… of searching and experimenting,… of saying No to any authority — literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. – Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950

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