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“To know yourself deeply and intimately, without mirroring blurred perceptions or diluted assumptions, is the ultimate freedom in life”

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“Making your own decisions and acting for yourself requires taking responsibility. And so, these people stop thinking for themselves. It's easier to leave everything up to someone else. And that's how they end up abandoning their own personal truths.”

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Book:The Cat Who Saved the Library

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“Those who are truly free do not seek to prove themselves to others. They accept responsibility for their actions and find fulfillment in the unfolding of daily life.”

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Book:A Philosophy of Critical Thinking

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“Australia is a land that offers a vision of the world as it was at creation, a country of new beginnings. It is where one comes when one needs to feel close to the original ferment of the earth. That is the story, is it not? Great men have become part of this place in one way or another and Henry has made it his business to know of these things... It is not a bad place. But it is not quite what Henry thought it would be. It is not the free place he was promised.”

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Book:The Other Side of the World

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“Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul's potential.”

“Most of us know in our hearts but don’t say aloud: we are living through a period of history during which certain kinds of queers have been granted certain kinds of freedoms, but those freedoms are precarious. They may not last our lifetimes.”

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Book:Evenings and Weekends

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“...I believe the citizens of the United States, and the citizens of the democracies of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, should begin thinking of themselves as linked to one another and to the people who share their values inside autocracies too. They need one another, now more than ever, because their democracies are not safe. Nobody's democracy is safe. Americans, with our long history of imagining ourselves to be exceptional, would do well to remember that our domestic politics have always been connected to, and influenced by, a larger struggle for freedom and the rule of law around the world.”

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Book:Autocracy, Inc.

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“It is easy for most of us to look back in time and praise those who fought for the right of others. The protests of history are much easier to accept than protests of the present.”

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“It must be clearly explained to the rebel that he must on no account be blindfolded by the enemy's concessions. [...] concessions are the cloak for a tighter rein. [...] colonialism never gives anything away for nothing. [...] Moreover, the native ought to realize that it is not colonialism that grants such concessions, but he himself that extorts them. [...] If need be the native can accept compromise with colonialism, but never surrender of principle.”

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Book:The Wretched of the Earth

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