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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable…
— Alexis Carrel
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When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. .…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The…
— Hermann Hesse
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The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength -…
— Malcolm X
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All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by…
— Jacques Monod
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No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
— Friedrich Schiller
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As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
— Alessandro Baricco
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A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach .…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
— J. B. Priestley
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Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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