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  • B. F. Skinner In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alice Hoffman 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!
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman 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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  • Persius Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Wendell L. Willkie 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.
    Wendell L. Willkie
    American lawyer, politician and corporate executive (1892 - 1944)
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  • James Russell Lowell 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.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Barbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Alan Cohen 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.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Boris Sidis 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)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Greil Marcus It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Wernher Von Braun It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Bill Hicks It's all about money, not freedom, ya'll, okay? Nothing to do with fuckin' freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without fucking money, okay?
    American: The Bill Hicks Story
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill James It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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