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“We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.”
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“I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
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“Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.”
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“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
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“Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.”
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“What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.”
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“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”
Source : O Magazine Interview, May 2004.
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“Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.”
