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  • Barnett Newman This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Buddha Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aeschylus To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Assata Shakur To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Pearl S. Buck To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Bob Lilly Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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  • Lord Shaftesbury True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Salman Rushdie Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Ang Lee Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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