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Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) -
Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
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It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
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