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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word ...

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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed ...

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How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...

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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most signific...

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The most expensive sex is free sex

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was...

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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited tha...

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For one to be free there must be at least two.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utte...

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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence i...

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They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...

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What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...

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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

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You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibac...

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The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all ...

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I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you unders...

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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is ...

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound...

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Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or ...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood wom...

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Audre LordeZami: A New Spelling of My Name

My attitude is, do as much as I can while I'm free. And if I'm arrested I'll still do as much as I c...

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Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, t...

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We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free ...

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...What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood?""Why, none at all. I had a wonderful child...

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Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very ...

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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we ...

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When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a be...

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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the ...

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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly...

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ...

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents...

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The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of societ...

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Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail...

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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre...

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Since nothing is free, to each his price.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact...

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Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...

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I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

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So time passed on. And the two skyscrapers decided to have a child. And they decided when their chil...

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is f...

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Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're a...

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The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fu...

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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle...

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There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's m...

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The important thing is to convince people to make and share useful things. Fighting with greedy douc...

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I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!...

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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government i...

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It's a thought," I said with a grin."That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than ...

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Dan MillmanWay of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free in...

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As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that ...

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different ...

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The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.

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David SedarisMe Talk Pretty One Day

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you fre...

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' W...

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We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth...

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