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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

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John MiltonParadise Lost

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

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John Piper (artist)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (artist)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

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John Piper (theologian)Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do ...

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John Piper (theologian)When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom ...

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part o...

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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory howe...

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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most impor...

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Consider the blundering anarchic system of the United States the stupidity of some of its lawmakers,...

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John SteinbeckThe Log from the Sea of Cortez

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be a...

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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long a...

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He who let's the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of an...

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That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes -- the legal ...

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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...

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There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, a...

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Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be tol...

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There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by...

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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to th...

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I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stand...

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To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not h...

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If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make ...

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[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s...

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He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that ...

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There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world...

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Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle,...

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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom an...

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I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of tha...

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The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it di...

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She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever...

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The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should th...

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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Ac...

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What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? ...

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The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in th...

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Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is ed...

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We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried ...

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We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we l...

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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

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The first duty of a man is to think for himself

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it wil...

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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy...

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We want the happiness of the Philippines, but we want to obtain it through noble and just means. If ...

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José RizalThe Rizal-Blumentritt Correspondence

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to writ...

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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquet...

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk ...

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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

For the normative self-understanding of modernity, Christianity has functioned as more than just a p...

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Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived in...

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Jürgen HabermasReligion and Rationality: Essays on Reason

He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body fro...

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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Karl MarxDas Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

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Karl MarxEssential Writings of Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of s...

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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; h...

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Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.

…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women bel...

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Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...

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Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pres...

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It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most ri...

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I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

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Katherine MansfieldKatherine Mansfield Letters And Journals: A Selection

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people...

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The search for liberation is a rejection of the responsibilities of freedom in favor of a release in...

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Kenneth MinogueThe Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life

Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be ...

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Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose".

I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you wan...

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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA...

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Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, ...

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The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Indepen...

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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of t...

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Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that...

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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual i...

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