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Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’

Salman Rushdie

Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
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Country Expression Freedom Law Rule Society
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
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
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Children heavy Life Understand World
I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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Myself Writing
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
We all owe death a life.
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Death Life One Liner
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
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
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
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Funny Kind Present
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
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Criticism Freedom Ideas Impossible Moments Thinking
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
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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Deep Defeat Fear Terrorism Yourself

Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’

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