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title: "5 Freedom Consider Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“The key to true freedom is not just following whatever desires we happen to have, but cultivating the right desires. This means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-t-cavanaugh/the-key-to-true-freedom-is-not-just-following-whatever-desires-we/)

[William T. Cavanaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-t-cavanaugh/)

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> [Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-w-gardner/creativity-requires-the-freedom-to-consider-unthinkable-alternatives/)

[John W. Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-w-gardner/)

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> [Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-w-gardner/creativity-requires-the-freedom-to-consider-unthinkable-alternatives-2/)

[John W. Gardner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-w-gardner/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/john-w-gardner-7687_alternatives_creativity-requires-the-freedom-to-consi_2257461.jpg)

> [“Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom." Consider, then, the full measure of my sadness, reading this inscription; not merely for Hosiah…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-t-anderson/hosiah-lister-now-dead-rec-d-his-freedom-consider-then-the-full/)

[M.T. Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-t-anderson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/m-t-anderson-7453_freedom_hosiah-lister-now-dead-rec-d-his-freedom_2471925.jpg)

> [To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bulgakov/to-struggle-against-censorship-whatever-its-nature-and-whatever-the/)

[Mikhail Bulgakov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bulgakov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d48/mikhail-bulgakov-1389_affirming_to-struggle-against-censorship-whatever_2631886.jpg)

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