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  • Baltasar Gracian Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lord George Byron Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Boris Pasternak Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Hans J. Morgenthau Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Voltaire Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Martin Luther Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • André Maurois Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Aleister Crowley Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bertrand Russell Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not fail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Emma Goldman Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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