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freedom butterfly liberty
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens
freedom butterfly deny
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
freedom tyrants mind
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
freedom water leaving
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil. Alan Watts
freedom disappointment ego
Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. Chogyam Trungpa
freedom nice air
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
freedom balance stubborn
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince Edward Gibbon
freedom believe past
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. Arnold J. Toynbee
freedom power political
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
men listening wish
Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
gone certain rings
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Charles Stross
gone lions ifs
Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion. C. S. Lewis
gone
Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen.
gone faces joyful
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb
gone soda flats
all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off. Charlaine Harris
gone eternal-sunshine clementines
clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it. Charlie Kaufman
gone cry
I'm crying because out there he's gone, but he's not gone inside me. Bill Watterson
gone happens line point processes reach security
There is no point in speculating what happens down the line if you reach an impasse. But there is a lot of processes that have to be gone through before you are at that point, not least the Security Council. Tony Blair
gone
We've always gone non-smoking in communities where (a ban) has passed. Jim Taylor