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"I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the fish down the drain.I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars.I released the insects onto the street.And the reptiles.And the mice.I told them, Go.All of you.Go.And they went.And they didn't come back."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
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Personal Development
"Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so."
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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
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"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."
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"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."
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"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."
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"Freedom is the choice to be free than to be a slave."
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"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
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"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
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"Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting."
Parenting
"I said, 'I need to know how he died.'He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing."
Mystery
"Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical." "I'm an optimist." "Well, that's good, because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to."
Belief
"It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals."
Activism
"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
Life
"Nothing goes away. Not on its own. You deal with it, or it deals with you."
Resilience
"Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms."
Ethics
"Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped."
Life
"She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a stapler. And a box of staples. And hope. I think of those things. The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape, the hope. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and hop."
Memory
"In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling."
Imagination
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