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

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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Dare to think for yourself.

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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