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The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.


Bruce Coville

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As we wave our goodbyes,
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GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.
JOHN DYER And he that will this health deny, / Down among the dead men let him lie.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance...
LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ...
BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas...
LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va...
BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha...
BRUCE BARTON As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve...
BRUCE BARTON What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no...
BRUCE BARTON Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
BRUCE BARTON The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
LENNY BRUCE In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
LENNY BRUCE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ...
BRUCE BARTON We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi...
BRUCE BARTON A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out ...
LENNY BRUCE In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE When you're through changing, you're through.
BRUCE BARTON If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...
LENNY BRUCE Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them...
BRUCE BARTON The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the...
BRUCE BARTON Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
BRUCE BARTON Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
BRUCE CAMPBELL Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE Communism is like one big phone company.
LENNY BRUCE