"Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy."

-- Walter Cronkite

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“The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.”
“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.”
“The life that I have is all that I have and the life that I have is yours. The love that I have of the life that I have is yours and yours and yours.”

Source : 1958 Poemrecited by Virginia McKenna as Violette Szabo in Carve Her Name With Pride.
“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”
“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.”

Source : Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”
“Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.”
“Some people in Indonesia say they are content, but in fact most of them are miserable. People say they are not poor, even if they take water from the gutter and live in a carton shack. They say they are not afraid, because even the horror they are experiencing every day, is not allowed here to be defined as fear. If it is, the families, the officials, and mass media, mock it.”
“The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.”

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