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Freedom Quotes
"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
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"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
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"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."
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"I know what it is: it's a green mamba snake away up in the tree. You don't have to be afraid of them anymore because you are one. They lie so still on the tree branch; they are the same everything as the tree. You could be right next to one and not even know. It's so quiet there. That's just exactly what I want to go and be, when I have to disappear. Your eyes will be little and round but you are so far up there you can look down and see the whole world, Mama and everybody. The tribes of Ham, Shem, and Japheth all together. Finally you are the highest one of all."
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"Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency."
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"The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom."
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"TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty."
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"The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of."
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"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."
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"Sometimes, changing circumstances also changes relationships."
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"Lend me your wings, bird. I'll spread them and fly on the thermals."
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"For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have."
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"I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically."
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"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something."
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"Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?"
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"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst."
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"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy."
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
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"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."
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"You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem."
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"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self."
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"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air."
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"Profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
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"I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk."
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"Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exhilaration not disappointment and after ascending through cloudy wisps, brushing your wings, there is only the clear blue horizon beckoning you forth...."
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"I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom."
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"What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead."
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"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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"We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity."
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"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline."
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"I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government."
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"He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced."
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"He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books- a man needed few things to live. And it was good not to get used to many things when life was unsettled. Again and again one had to abandon them or they were taken away. One should be ready to leave every day. That was the reason he had lived alone- when one was on the move one should not have anything that could bind one. Nothing that could stir the heart. The adventure- but nothing more."
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"It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree."
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"I used to have a sign pinned up on my wall that read: Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us...It was all about letting go of everything."
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