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“This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.”

People Men Humans Seems Fighting Speak Freedom Human Beings Responsibility Huge Cost Bitter Requirements

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?”

Want Writing War Enough Seems Used Freedom Worst Crime Rivers Sick Mere Worst Things Massacres Emblems

Book:The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

“The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”

Way Long Seems Spiritual Suffering Choices Names Freedom Effort Greater Mankind Health Healthy Deserve Compelling Guardian

Book:The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!”

Seems Freedom Deep Thought Fetters

Author:Robert Browning

“Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible, nothing unattainable.”

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Author:Kara Goucher

“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.”

Seems Values Freedom Speech Weather Freedom Of Speech

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES