"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them."

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"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them."

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"Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime."

Carew Papritz, American Author

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"Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly."

Sam Harris, American Author

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"I'll fight when needed, revel when there's an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes...But I will not let anyone use me against my will."

Christopher Paolini, American Author

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"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"But deciding not to have children is a very, very hard decision for a woman to make: the atmosphere is worryingly inconducive to saying, "I choose not to," or "it all sounds a bit vile, tbh." We call these women "selfish" The inference of the word "childless" is negative: one of lack, and loss. We think of nonmothers as rangy lone wolves--rattling around, as dangerous as teenage boys or men. We make women feel that their narrative has ground to a halt in their thirities if they don't "finish things" properly and have children."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist

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"But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn't spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can't agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist

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"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Never adjust your day to suit someone else's happiness. When riding on God's good grace, roll with things your way."

Ron Baratono, American Poet

Autonomy, Faith, Boundaries, Self-Direction

"...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will..."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Autonomy, Life, Choice, Freedom, Will

"There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"The welfare system in the United States is vile."

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"As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself."

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"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it."

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"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design."

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