Free Quotes
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In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .
Florida Scott-Maxwell
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When you have the ball, you are free.
Riyad Mahrez
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News is the most — the most human thing there is, reflecting the changing picture of our daily lives and the world around us. Fleeting, of course, but essential. A free press is the most vital and important element in a democracy. Why, you can always tell when democracy is threatened because attempts are made to stifle free expression and keep people from knowing what is going on and forming their own judgments.” She added thoughtfully, “It is terrible to see news distorted and falsified for private ends or personal gain or to engender hatred or serve totalitarian purposes as has happened abroad and is happening here every day.
Emilie Loring
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Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.
Marianne Williamson
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Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.
Galen Strawson
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The North knows it cannot enjoy true security so long as the South is enjoying itself next door, be it ever so harmless in military terms and even free of US troops.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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I was born free as Caesar; so were you
William Shakespeare
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
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I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.
Nova Ren Suma
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I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.
Jillian Hervey
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I think, with Hank Paulson, the concept of a bailout was anathema to him from day one. He was a Republican; he's a free marketeer. He believes in capitalism, and part of capitalism is believing in failure. And so the idea of bailing out an institution, I think, went against every part of him.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
Abraham Lincoln
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Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.
Nicholson Baker
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Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.
Josh Hawley
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Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
Martin Luther
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The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
P. D. James
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But sometimes I look at Phoebe and I think about how she had a bird inside her heart. On the outside, she’s just like everyone else, but I like to think that maybe she carries within her something magical and free.
Beth Revis
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My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.
Nathan Lowell
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Freedom requires virtue. Virtue requires faith. And faith, in turn, requires freedom. You can't have coerced state-sanctioned religion. It has to be utterly free.
Eric Metaxas
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
Andrew Rosenthal