Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

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The more a man knows, the less he talks.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

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Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je d‚fendrai jusqu'... la mort le droit que vous avez de le dire/ I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it

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‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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