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Freedom Quotes
"I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom."
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"Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. . . . Where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours. . . then surely it is braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel . . . than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men."
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"A leaf does not resist the breeze. A goose does not resist the urge to fly down south. Is this not happiness? Is this not freedom? To access this incredible state, we need only one thing: Trust. Trust that, when you are not holding yourself together so tightly, you will not fall apart. Trust that it is more important to fulfill your authentic desires than listen to your fears. Trust that your intuition is leading you somewhere. Trust that the flow of life contains you, is bigger than you, and will take care of you - if you let it."
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"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
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"Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being."
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"Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do."
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"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
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"School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects."
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"I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech."
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"I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation."
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"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom."
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"Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness."
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"Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom."
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"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."
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"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."
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"All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing."
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"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world."
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"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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"The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America."
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"Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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"In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic."
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"The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws."
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"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about."
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"I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see."
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"INTO MY OWNOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew- Only more sure of all I thought was true."
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"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."
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"She should not remember what it was like to be free."
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"Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way."
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"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."
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"All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day."
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
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"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist."
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