Alexander von Humboldt Quotes
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Free love sounds great.
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
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For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
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I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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The course of decision in this Court has thus far jealously enforced the principle of a free society secured by the prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures. Its safeguards are not to be worn away by a process of devitalizing interpretation.
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Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?
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All the mirrors on the wall show a man not yet appeared who could not enter this white hall. He is no better and no worse, but he is free of Lethe's curse: his warm hand makes a human pledge. Strayed from the future, can it be that he will really come to me, turning left from the bridge?
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All artists are now free to express their own personality.
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.
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I can only tell you that when long soul-searching and a combination of circumstances delivered me of my last prejudices, there was an exalted sense of liberation. It was not the Negro who became free, but I.
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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Before being free, it is necessary to be just.
