"Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression."

-- Gerard K. O'Neill

#Respect Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Rights Quotes

“A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.”
“America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.”
“If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...”
“I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.”
“Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.”

Source : John Elder Robison (2011). “Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”, p.128, Broadway Books
“I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.”
“Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws.”

Source : "Soundbite: Dammit Janet". Interview with Adrienne Redd, reason.com. May 1997.
“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”

Source : Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil (2003). “The Story of English”, Penguin Group USA

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