It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. -- Mark Twain

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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. -- Jim Morrison

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Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein

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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the true meaning of knowledge.

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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. -- Ronald Reagan

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. ― Bertrand Russell

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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. ― Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

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