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When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
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