Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
- America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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- As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
- For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
- The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool...
- Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest...
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities...
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- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to...
- The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;...
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