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#1

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#2

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

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#3

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
― Carrie Jones, Need

tags: courage, freedom, happiness

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#4

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#5

“He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
― Aristotle

tags: fear, freedom

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#6

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#7

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: freedom, liberty

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#8

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: freedom, happiness

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#9

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
― Jim Morrison

tags: freedom, friendship, jim-morrison

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#10

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
― James Baldwin

tags: freedom, liberty

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#11

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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#12

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

tags: conviction, freedom, values

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#13

“I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!”
― Gary Paulsen

tags: freedom, humor, life

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#14

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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#15

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: freedom, president, principles, privilege, society

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#16

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: forgetfulness, freedom, memory

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#17

“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

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#18

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Human Emotions

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#19

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: creativity, education, freedom

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#20

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

tags: books, freedom, literature, reading, words

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#21

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle

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#22

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

tags: anarchy, freedom, inspirational, lateral-thinking, philosophy, rationalism

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#23

“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US so great. That’s what freedom is all about. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#24

“People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

tags: animals, freedom, lifestyle, people

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#25

“You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.”
― Ron Paul

tags: bill-of-rights, civil-rights, equal-rights, freedom, gay-rights, liberty, politics, rights, womens-rights

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#26

“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Sacred Ground

tags: civil-rights, freedom

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#27

“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.”
― Ronald Reagan

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#28

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Freedom”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#29

“A true balance between work and life
comes with knowing that your life
activities are integrated, not separated.”
― Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Keys to Work/Life Balance: Unlock Your Full Potential

tags: integration, work-life-balance

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