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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
 George Jean Nathan

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
 George Jean Nathan
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
 George Jean Nathan
It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
 George Jean Nathan
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
 George Jean Nathan
Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.
 George Jean Nathan