Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. —Noam Chomsky, American activist and professor of linguistics at MIT

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In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. —Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist

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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine. —Nancy Reagan, former First Lady

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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. —Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist

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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. —Walter Benjamin, German critic

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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? —Dwight D. Eisenhower, former U.S. president

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In the West, people don’t believe animals have souls, do they? That’s not true in Japan, though. I myself believe that dogs and cats have souls — but that has nothing to do with a specific religion. Children have similar feelings about dolls — if they love a doll enough, they feel that it’s alive. That feeling is universal. It’s not something they’re taught — they just feel it somehow. It’s not connected with any religious belief. —Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

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