Quotes with free-thought

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  • William Hazlitt No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Margaret Sanger No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Pearl S. Buck None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bernie Sanders Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Aravind Adiga Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free.
    Source: Last Man in Tower (2011) 419
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Boethius Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book II, section 4, line 64
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • Walter Benjamin Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Harriet Tubman Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Virginia Woolf Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Source: Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carole Bouquet Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
    Source: Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Source: Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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