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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.


William O. Douglas

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NO DOUBT It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
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GEORGE WASHINGTON TISD can no longer wait on the state and must act in the best interest of our teachers and students.
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STEPHEN A. BRENNAN Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and...
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O. HENRY Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take...
O. HENRY When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched i...
STEVE-O Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 It is not necessary to maintain a conversati...
O. HALLESBY Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of...
O. HENRY What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o...
STEVE-O I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
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