"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.“
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
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"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
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"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."
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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."
-Roald Dahl
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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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