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"To enjoy the beauty of the world, don't try to fit in. Try to fly out of your perceived boundaries."
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"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."
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Personal Development

"Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you - you will blow right by their grip, you will effortlessly flow to safety."
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Personal Development

"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
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Personal Development

"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
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Personal Development

"True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains."
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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
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Personal Development

"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."
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"I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon- is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
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"Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous."
Society

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."
Power

"She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman."
Literature

"This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think."
Faith

"Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights, the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful."
Justice

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."
Art

"The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning."
Creativity

"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."
Experience

"Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners."
Society

"At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind."
Philosophy
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