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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 26, 2014
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"  
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759  
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)  
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
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Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008  
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