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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

— Peter Ustinov Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982)

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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice.

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