Quotes 421 till 440 of 741.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
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Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
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Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
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Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
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Other nations have tried to check... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
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Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
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