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"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."

"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"

"On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian."

"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."

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"I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice."

"Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops."

"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."

"The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature."

"Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow."

"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion."

"The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics."

"The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative."
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