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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Source: Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Pearl S. Buck To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
    Bob Lilly
     
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  • Lord Shaftesbury True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    Source: The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Salman Rushdie Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Walt Whitman Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Horace We are free to yield to truth.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Campbell Brown We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Raoul Vaneigem We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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