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Quote by Quentin Crisp
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. – Quentin Crisp

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps. – Quentin Crisp

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud

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Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return. – Bob Taft

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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every should is a compulsion, and not every like is a high morality and true freedom. – Karl Rahner

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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. – Wendell Willkie

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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? – A.A. Milne

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Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We dont have freedom to do anything anymore. – Tony Stewart

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, its the exact opposite. – Paul Dirac

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