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title: "5 Mind Liberty Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-sheck/writing-for-me-has-to-do-with-liberty-of-mind-the-liberty-to-intuit/)

[Laurie Sheck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-sheck/)

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> [To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-bryant/to-the-medieval-mind-a-liberty-was-a-right-to-the-enjoyment-of-a/)

[Arthur Bryant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-bryant/)

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> [It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-an-axiom-in-my-mind-that-our-liberty-can-never-be-safe-but-in/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-berkeley/a-mind-at-liberty-to-reflect-on-its-own-observations-if-it-produce/)

[George Berkeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-berkeley/)

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> [He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/he-that-outlives-a-wife-whom-he-has-long-loved-sees-himself-disjoined/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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