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Freedom Quotes
"We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it."
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"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance."
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"Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can."
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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
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"Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality."
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"Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free."
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"There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it."
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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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"Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom."
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"I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move."
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"I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom."
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"I think we spend more time thinking of things to deal with than just letting them go. When we quiet our minds, that's true freedom."
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"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"There's a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It's a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I'd take advantage of it while you can."
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."
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"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
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"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."
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"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled."
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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
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"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
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