Quotes with free-thought

Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1401.

  • Abigail Adams Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Abraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Bruce Barton What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bell Hooks What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Barry Humphries What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Brendan Myers What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Rex Steven Sikes What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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  • Wendell Phillips What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Alexander Pope What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Carson What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Jean Anouilh What you get free costs too much.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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