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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Salman Rushdie

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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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
If you’re offended, it’s your problem.
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Offense Problem Yourself
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
What’s real and what’s true aren’t necessarily the same.
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Home Necessary Reality True
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
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
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
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
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Admire Fall Fame Shadow
Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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Dreams Evil Fantasy Goodness Greatness Home Journey Man
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
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
If somebody’s trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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Better Loud Possible Sing Try Yourself
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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Advice Game Ladder Life Snake
We were language’s magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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Bright Language Shine Sound Steal Theft
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
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Legal Name

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