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"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." »Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
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"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering
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"Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden." »Robin Green
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"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies." »George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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"Everyone should free their mind and soul. Some are ready to free them now, and some will be ready to free them in the future. Some will never be ready and that is what makes their lives not worth living." »Emad Hasan
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"Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil." »Baruch Spinoza
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." »William Orville Douglas
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"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." »Clarence Darrow
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"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet." »Theodore White
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card
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"What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled." »Earl of Roscommon
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"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine
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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines
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"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." »Eric Hoffer
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"There are those people today who live the same life, day in day out, predictable, risk free, dreamless, they are the harshest critics of those who strive to break free from this mundane existence. In this world, too many people are afraid to pursue the life they truly desire, too afraid of being criticised by others, too afraid of failing, too afraid of not knowing the way. However there are also those who choose to follow their dreams, those who choose to rebel, those who strive to be free, those who live. Stay true to yourself; break free from the chains of society and live.May you too have the strength and courage to pursue your dreams." »Roger Chao
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"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general." »Frederick Nietzsche
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"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least." »Jane Welsh Carlyle
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine
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"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars." »John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
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"Freedom of mind is the ultimate prove of persistence.” A person, whose mind is not free though he may not be in prison, he is a prisoner and not a free man" »The Omani Shed
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"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future." »Gerald R. Ford
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"Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity." »Arabian Proverb
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"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham
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