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Totalitarian arrogance may pretend to change history and reality.
It devastates societies, traditions and individual freedom, but it will ultimately fail.

— Marco Respinti

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Truth is not limited to its material vessels.

Shifu and Shimu are the spiritual parents of the dizi, and the Tai Ji Men community would not have existed with only one of them.

The state is not the source of religious liberty, although it should acknowledge and protect it.

Freedom is immaterial and universal, and for this reason untouchable and undeniable. While liberties can be denied and curtailed, freedom cannot.

Only deeply peaceful men and women can build a truly pacific society, one that would be able to resist and last.

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'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul:
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Samuel Johnson The Rambler (1750)

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

John Calvin

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