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Freedom Quotes
"A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person's promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective."
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"Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free."
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"Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal."
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"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."
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"You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will."
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"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search."
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"Freedom to be yourself is among the most valuable freedoms I know."
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"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."
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"I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone."
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"He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
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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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"If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss."
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"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
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"You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with everystep but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts dont settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing. Love her wild or leave her there."
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"I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be."
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"Freedom is not given to you by anyone; you have to cultivate it yourself."
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"We are never free when we imprison ourselves in the prison of our fixed, false beliefs."
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"Love sets you free the moment it arrests you."
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"You don't have to do the same things you've always done, if it no longer feels good to do them. Give yourself permission to try something different, something new. Give yourself permission to break away from routine and obligation. Permission to explore, and to soar."
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"In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good."
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"That which frees one from bondage is the right religion."
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"Creativity flourishes where there is freedom."
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"And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey-a look of longing. "Lord! I wish I could go. "Don't you like it here? "Sure. It's all right, but I wish I could go. "You don't even know where I'm going."I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere."
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"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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"You don't have to allow the drama and events of the economy, others people's lives, and external circumstances to limit your potential and rob you of the life you deserve."
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"She had a flicker of memory from a time when, just for a moment, she'd been free; when the world had been wide open and she'd been about to enter it with Sam at her side. It was a freedom that she was still working for, because even though she'd tasted it only for a heartbeat, it had been the most exquisite heartbeat she'd ever experienced."
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"The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."
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"Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home."
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"We should tend our freedom wisely."
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"Reduce the influence of religion upon your life."
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"Faith revels in the liberating fact that only a terribly miniscule part of life lies within the constricted confines of my reach, and that I am graciously invited out to live in a place beyond my grasp."
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"Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy."
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"If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow."
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