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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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