Akong Rinpoche Quotes
Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Akong Rinpoche
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
Ralph Bellamy
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
Olivia Wilde
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph
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I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'
Brittany Snow
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Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
E. F. Schumacher
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It's obviously a learning experience for the governor, but it's also a chance for the DOD to learn how the state corrections facilities are run. It's an opportunity for them to learn how we run our prison system.
Alice Stewart
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With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
Tavi Gevinson
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Orison Swett Marden
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Freedom is not something you look for outside of yourself. Freedom is within you.
Akong Rinpoche