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• Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.

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• True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.

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• I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

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• There is no such thing as a “war hero”, because there is nothing about war that is heroic.

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• To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.

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• We have a problem when the same people who make the law get to decide whether or not they themselves have broken the law.

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• The most important lesson I have ever learned is that I haven’t learned anything.

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• The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.

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• If people don’t want you to question something, that probably means you should question it.

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• Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.

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• The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

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• Patriotism is racism for the modern era.

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• Love is my philosophy, and my philosophy is love.

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• In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

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• Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.

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• Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it.

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• I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists.

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• I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

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• When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

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• The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.

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Michel Templet (20)

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Profession:	Artist, Philosopher, Writer

About

I usually go by my middle name of Michel. I am an idealist in some ways, a pessimist in others, a philosopher, a writer, an artist. My only goal for my life is to leave the world a better place than it was when I entered it; everything I do is subordinate to that goal.

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Births

• 1870 - Mary Johnston
• 1870 - Alexander Berkman
• 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan
• 1953 - Tina Brown
• 1965 - Reggie Lewis

Deaths

• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1996 - Mohammad Abdus Salam
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay
• 1999 - Quentin Crisp
• 1926 - Joseph McKenna