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When history is erased, peoples moral values are also erased. - Ma

When history is erased, peoples moral values are also erased. – Ma Jian

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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. – Ma Jian

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Freedom
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Ma Jian
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regimes strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. – Ma Jian

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strength
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Ma Jian
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The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable. – Robert Menzies

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History

If you listen to Giuliani, its like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. Im not part of the history. Bloombergs not part of the history. Its like, he did it. Hes the only one. Thats why hes a little crazy. – Ed Koch

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History

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. – Norman Mailer

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History
[T]hat is the triumph of history – truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

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History

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. – Novalis

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Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman. – Author Unknown

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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. – Gabriel Marcel

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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. – Robert Graves

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