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- I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, May 2, 2006
- There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
- The men who had hated [the book], and had not particularly loved Helvétius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now.
- S. G. Tallentyre, referring to Voltaire. Often attributed to Voltaire.
- Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Essay on Tolerance
- Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to M. le Riche, February 6, 1770
- The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
- We don't make mistakes, we make happy accidents.
- Bob Ross (1942 - 1995), "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross" PBS
- Truth is a pathless land.
- Krishnamurti
- Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
- Edna Woolman Chase
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