"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats."

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Source : "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

Timothy Garton Ash

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“If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.”
“I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing this, I don't know anything, I can't do this." And I went through years of that with Into The Maelstrom.”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.”
“I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.”
“We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.”
“There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.”
“I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.”

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