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The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart! ↗

— Victor Manuel Rivera

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It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d bites a man m at time t," thereby demonstrating their unshakable commitment to logical rigor, even though they don't go on to manipulate any formulae involving d, m, and t. ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#philosophers #freedom

Genuine bravery for a writer.... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be expressed. It is about speaking out with a different voice, risking the wrath of the state and offending everyone, for the sake of the truth, and the writer’s conscience. ↗

— Murong Xuecun

#literature #freedom

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. ↗

— David Graeber

#economics #libertarianism #markets #politics #freedom

I believe in looseness. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#freedom #freedom

الحرية لا يمكن أن تعطى على جرعات، فالمرء إما أن يكون حرّاً أو لا يكون حرّاً ↗

— نيلسون مانديلا

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The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#fear #freedom #freedom

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#illumination #science #thought #freedom