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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were."

"Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others..."

"Employment is the greatest dream killer."

"None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform."
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"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."

"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."

"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity."

"The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men."

"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown."
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