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"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability."" – David Mamet
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. -Joseph Wood Krutch
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