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Can it be, I thought, can it actually be? .......could he be all of them: Rine the runner and Rine the gambler and Rine the briber and Rine the lover and Rinehart the Reverend? Could he himself be both rind and heart? .....Rinehart the rounder. It was true as I was true. His world was possibility and he knew it. He was years ahead of me and I was a fool. I must have been crazy and blind. The world in which we lived was without boundaries...All boundaries down, freedom was not only the recognition of necessity, it was the recognition of possibility. And sitting there trembling I caught a brief glimpse of the possibilities posed by Rinehart’s multiple personalities… ↗

— Ralph Ellison

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Without "the people," there is no country. ↗

— John David

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Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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សេរីភាព និងសុភមង្គលមិនមានទេ បើគ្មានឯករាជ្យ ។ Freedom and Happiness never be If no independence. ↗

— Thach Preichea Koeun

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The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being. ↗

— Karl Popper

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Our choices are truncated in evil's presence. ↗

— Michael Ventura

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A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

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No se puede ser libre si se dedica uno a esperar a que el Universo se pronuncie. Si estás a merced del Universo, no eres realmente libre. ↗

— Wendy Wunder

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I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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It was more like a form of claustrophobia -- a dread of exchanging the freedom of her own self-imposed routine for the inescapable burden of somebody else's. ↗

— Jan Struther

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