"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
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"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.“
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
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"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."
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"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
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"As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking."
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-Bob Marley
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-Marilyn Monroe
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."
-Abraham Lincoln
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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
-William Shakespeare
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