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Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Salman Rushdie

If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.
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Country Evidence Hate Power Recover Thinking World
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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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Believe Direction Myself
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.
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Bad Defense Freedom People Principle Yourself
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can’t be unthought.
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Thinking World Yourself
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
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Writing Yourself
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Combination Freedom Heart Reason Religion Threat Tragedy
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Bad Believe Demon God Life People Spiritual
You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.
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Bed Frame Hang Home Notice Shame Wall
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.
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Himself Magic Reality World

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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