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  • A. E. van Vogt But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Angelus Silesius By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Jim Rohn By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Billy Corgan Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Bruce Barton Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ayn Rand Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • John Sterling Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott Comment is free but facts are sacred.
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  • C. P. Scott Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
    C. P. Scott
    British journalist, publisher and politician (full name Charles Prestwich Scott) (1846 - 1932)
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Pythagoras Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • James Baldwin Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Barack Obama Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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