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Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.


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It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.



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...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.



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To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.



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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.



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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?



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Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?



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