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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Salman Rushdie

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it’s teaching.
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Education Learning Lesson Oneself Teaching Thinking
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.
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History Kind Man Problem Religion Responsible
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Existence Expression Freedom Offense
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.
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Negative Public Strange Violence
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Freedom Game Life Talk
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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Constitution Freedom Religious Right Talk
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
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
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
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
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
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Exploration Heart Human Imagination Literature Place Society Spirit Truth
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From there we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.
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Enemy Fundamental heavy Offense Opinion Ourselves Thinking
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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Beginning End Story Yourself

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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