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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Freedom Evils Only Cure Which Newly Acquired Produces

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. Will Self

Good You Good Night Listening Fall Waters Frail Bad Some Bad One Push Feel Know Forecast Due Accompanied Off Shipping Goes Psyche Midnight Acquired Asleep Radio Compelled Here Night Need

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Willa Cather

Age Before Writer Most Material Acquired Fifteen Works Basic

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. William Falconer

Great Will Degree Own Indeed Intrinsic Prevent Attained Weight Advance Velocity New She Without Greatest Motion Ship Any May Gaining Acquired Acquiring Her

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. William H. Seward

Wealth Power Nation National Valor Indeed Ours Arbitrary Arbitrary Power True Nevertheless Over Over It Domain Hold Acquired Whole

Emotionally damaged men all too often rip apart their own lives, and those of their partners and children. I see both physical fitness and emotional strength as virtues, but they are acquired by entirely different means. George Monbiot

Fitness Strength Men Physical Fitness Own Too Virtues Those I See Physical See Rip Entirely Both Emotional Emotionally Partners Often Children Different Apart Acquired Means Lives Damaged

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Wisdom Experience Better Long Somewhere Live Enough Meets Later Way Sooner Along Most Than Acquired Us

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