In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Luigi Pirandello
One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.
William Godwin
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander Hamilton