Quotes 261 till 280 of 614.
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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.
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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
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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.
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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
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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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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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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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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.
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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.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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