If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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