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" I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. "
Marilyn Monroe
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" A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of. "
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" Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty. "
Robert Kennedy
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" Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. "
D. H. Lawrence
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" Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. "
Viktor E. Frankl
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" Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression. "
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" Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer. "
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" The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. "
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" In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York Times' - coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers - were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press. "
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" Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn't spend it - especially if she doesn't spend it. "
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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" The only certain freedom's in departure. "
Robert Frost
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" We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom. "
Shigeru Yoshida
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" Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways. "
Eric Schmidt
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" When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player. "
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" I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom. "
Robert H. Schuller
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" We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. "
Herbert Spencer
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" You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. "
Frank Gehry
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" I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves. "
Rand Paul
People
Freedom
Believe
" Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us. "
Daniel Dennett
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Illusion
" Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered... to feel she is the most important thing in someone's world. Only a man can paint this picture. "
Marilyn Monroe
World
Woman
Picture
" When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep. "
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Sleep
Straight
Cried
" My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. "
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Ground
Foundation
Working
" What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? "
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Drawing
Breath
Next
" Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. "
Albert Camus
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Die
Dying
" The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure. "
Pierre Nanterme
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" There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. "
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" After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. "
Ma Jian
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" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "
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" My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity. "
Okky Madasari
Always
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" Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. "
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" Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. "
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