"The idea that men are created free and……" — David Riesman

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• I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a… — Carrie Brownstein
• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even… — Marshall McLuhan
• Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman
• Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. — Denis Waitley
• Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
• The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we… — Thomas Merton
• While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity… — Pope Francis
• Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the… — Natalie Zemon Davis
• The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all… — Shoghi Effendi
• At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. — Harold Bloom
• I want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP [gross national product] over the… — Grover Norquist
• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and… — Isaac Asimov

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