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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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"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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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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"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
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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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"Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it."
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"Yes, she loved her ship more than she had loved him. But what she loved even more was what it gave her: freedom, and the key to the marvels of space. It gave her the stars, and she doubted she could ever love anything or anyone more than she loved the stars."
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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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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
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"I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom."
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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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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."
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"Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom."
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"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
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"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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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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"We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks."
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"Freedom is not about having no limitations, but about rising above them."
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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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"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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"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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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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"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
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"They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that."
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"At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices."
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