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I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.

Salman Rushdie

Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Achievement Creation Goal Innocence Legal Murder People Pursuit Terrorism
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
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Change Domination Live Power Story Thinking Time True
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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Book Easy Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
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Eyes Fall In Love Hope Ignorance Kind Life Soft
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
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Belief One Liner
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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Difficult Question Stay Talk Writing

I don’t dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don’t want that to be dictated to me either.

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