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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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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."

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

"None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform."

"Don't seek permission to be happy."

"Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality."
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."

"In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women, Father said. He said it was men invented virginity not women. Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything: not only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it have been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That's why that's sad too; nothing is even worth the changing of it..."

"Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us."
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