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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world. ↗

— Harry Browne

#any #become #better #bill #bill of rights

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh. ↗

— Isabella L. Bird

#mountains #travel #beauty

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #being #empire #i #ridiculous

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose. ↗

— Harry Browne

#anyone #buy #choose #given #job

I never was a very good singer. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#i #never #singer #very

Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#dad #everybody #guitar #i #keep

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#any #go #going #i #i do

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#done #favorite #feel #i #i feel

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#living #perception #experience