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«The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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amendment, dominant, embarrassing, First Amendment, prohibit, prohibiting, prohibits, suppression, suppressions, widespread
«Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
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accuracy, adjoin, adjoining, fineness, hold down, suppression, suppressions
«A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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arbitrary, denies, hesitate, internal, in its own right, other states, public opinion, reflected, suppression, suppressions
«Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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admirable, attribution, claims, hideous, idolatries, idolatry, monster, omnipotence, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, rationalism, recognition, sanctifies, sanctifying, stock, suppression, suppressions, The Admirable
«Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.»
«It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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abandoned, benefits, deprive, prostitution, suppression, suppressions, the press
«We can see that the mind is at every stage a theatre of simultaneous possibilities. Consciousness consists in the comparison of these with each other, the selection of some, and the suppression of others, of the rest, by the reinforcing and inhibiting agency of attention . The highest and most celebrated mental products are filtered from the data chosen by the faculty below that - which mass was in turn sifted from a still larger amount of simpler material, and so on.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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agency, and so on, celebrated, comparison, data, faculty, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibits, in turn, products, reinforce, reinforced, reinforces, reinforcing, sift, sifted, sifting, simpler, simultaneous, suppression, suppressions, theatre, The Faculty
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