Free Quotes
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If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.
James Surowiecki
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If we studied birds, maybe we could learn to be free.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.
Clive Davis
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra
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In the new order a Locke was free-with almost no danger of being interfered with-to think his sublime thoughts, to seek the first causes of all things, to understand the nature of things. He could talk with his friends and teach the young. And there was money enough. The academies and universities satisfied Socrates’ demand to be fed in the prytaneum.
Allan Bloom
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When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.
Mary Pope Osborne
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Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn't touch the surface on the canvas, it's just above.. ..so I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.
Jackson Pollock
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By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
Epictetus
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Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.
Maysoon Zayid
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When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
Naomi Klein
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Francis Picabia
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I'm a pro-growth, small-government conservative with a background in free enterprise.
Doug Ducey
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People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
John Holt
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That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.
Naomi Klein
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The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.
Martin Luther
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To be truly alive is to be transformed from within, open to the energy of God's love. In accepting the power of the Holy Spirit you can also transform your families, communities and nations. Set free the gifts! Let wisdom, courage, awe and reverence be the marks of greatness!
Pope Benedict XVI
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
Jack Henry Abbott
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More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will.
Paul Bloom
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It has been said that America is a country for the poor, not for the rich. There would be more correctness in saying it is the country for both, where the latter have a relish for free government; but, proportionally, more for the former than for the latter.
James Madison
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
James Dyson
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Jack Kevorkian