J. Norman Collie quotes
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“In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.”
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“Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.”
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“To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.”
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“The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?”
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“Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.”
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“Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.”
-- J. Norman Collie
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“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”
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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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Source : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, Da Capo Press
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“Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought”
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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