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I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.
Mark Knopfler
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.


Horace
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler
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President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything of significance through Congress.
Robert Dallek
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I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.
Marcus Brigstocke
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
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When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.


William Glasser
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
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Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.
Joe Torre
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.
Robert D. Hare
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Freida Pinto
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?


Persius
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.


Richard Steele
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
Sylvia Earle
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire
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After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.
Cherry Jones
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He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience.
Pierce Brosnan
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When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.
Rob Portman
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There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
Susan Minot
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