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[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Anthony Daniels

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Anthony Daniels
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Actor
Film Actor
Mime Artist
Television Actor
Salisbury
England
Anthony Kingsley Daniels
Idle
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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
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For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.
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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
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All I ever wanted to do was act.
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Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
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Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
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