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"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
Man
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Books
"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
Death
"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
Creation
"History develops, art stands still."
Art
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
Freedom
"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
Life
"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."
Philosophy
"I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully."
Behavior
"I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there."
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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."
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"To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains."
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Personal Development
"You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
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"Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours."
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Personal Development
"I suggest that people walk around under the moon barefoot, as I have today. There's that voice of your mom and dad and aunt and big sister and uncle and annoying cousin in your ear saying "Your feet are going to get dirty and you're going to turn into a bat" so the defiance in the act of simply taking your shoes off and standing there under that moon- is astronomical. A dirty-feet-moonlit-defiance that will make you smile."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."
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