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“The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.”

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Author:Judith Martin

“True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.”

Self Freedom Power Oneself True Freedom

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.”

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Book:The essential Turgenev

Source: The essential Turgenev

“It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.”

Freedom Easier Oneself

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. —Archibald MacLeish”

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Author:Sheena Iyengar

“Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”

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Author:Archibald MacLeish

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

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Book:The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.”

Mean Freedom Oneself Borrowed

Author:Theo van Doesburg

“Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.”