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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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Evidence Family Funny Important Shame Story
Reality is a question of perspective.
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Deep One Liner Perspective Question Reality
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Freedom People Talk Thinking Voice
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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Beginning God Justice Man People
In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Friendship Life
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
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
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
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Blood Head Hide Mask
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
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
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
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
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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Death Place Reality World
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True

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