"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
-Pericles
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"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."
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"Time is the wisest counselor of all."
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"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."
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"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."
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"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
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"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."
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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
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"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?"
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"Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization."
-Charles Lindbergh
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