Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Bryant H. McGill Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Seneca Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
    Source: The Freedom of the Press (1972)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Bill Lipinski Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Truman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • J. Johnson Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
    J. Johnson
     
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  • Muhammad Ali Friendship is not something you learn in school.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • John Mason Brown Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Salman Rushdie Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Ben Horowitz From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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