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The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.


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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.



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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.



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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.



Canada was built on dead beavers.

Canada was built on dead beavers.



A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.



We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.



You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.



Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.



If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.



Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.





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I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.



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And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.



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