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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right...
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Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and...
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my...
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon...
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is...
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential....
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Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing...
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline...