Quotes with free-born

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  • Butch Trucks Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Benjamin Tucker One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Barbara Amiel Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Terry Pratchett Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Epictetus Only the educated are free.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Richard Rorty Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • John Louis O'Sullivan Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
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  • Bill Stern Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
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