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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Swami Vivekananda

You Fear Will No Fear Become Depend Secret Only Never No-One Freed Existence Help Moment Whole Reject

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Unknown

Thousand More Only Could Freed Knew Were Slaves

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison

Yourself Ownership Claiming One Thing Self Freed Freeing Another Thing

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. Haile Selassie

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. Os Guinness

Positive Today Freedom You Oppression Negative Power Alcohol Addiction Colonial Freed Freedom From Whether Ignored Need

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry. Dolores Huerta

Racism People Free Wish Consider Our Please Anarchist Say States Those India Join Could Freed How Nonviolent Movement Themselves Certainly Gandhi Who Radicals United United States

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Habit Freed Outward Enables Conditions Domination Being Being Happy Largely

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going. Ben Shapiro

Work Time Earned Otherwise Promptly Only Freed Retirees Over New Course Going Golf Leisure Leisure Time Golf Course Us Fulfills Reason Many Keel Keeps Treadmill

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Steve Jobs

Life Best Me Creative My Life Everything Enter Out See About Could Fired Freed Lightness Most Periods Sure Replaced Beginner Getting Being Happened Again Turned Then Successful Less Ever Apple Thing

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes. A. Philip Randolph

Free Minds Negroes Would Freed Merely Lincoln Bodies

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out of the workforce. There are only two problems with this strategy: First, someone has to pay for it; second, it is not the recipe for human fulfillment. Ben Shapiro

Problems Job Drop First Pay Strategy Consequences Recipe Everyone Out Jobs Hates Someone Having Only Economic Freed Drop-Out Were His Times Human Workforce Fulfillment Her Second Two

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me. Christen Press

Me Better Live Think Able Freed Really Moment

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' Edmund Morgan

You Equality Independence Country Virginia Out Must Carter Ringing Steal He Freed Support Days Read His Diary Affirmation Wondered Send Confided Owner After Whether Declaration Them Meant Plantation Slaves Two

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Politics Burden Unpopular More Take Freed Feel Am Decisions Then

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person. Grace Jones

Me You Grace Whatever Own Older Other Somehow My Own Having More Had Freed Name Became Said Got Came Person America Anybody Anything Then Really Sudden

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. James Buchan

Life Great People World Every Corner Gave Earth Hundreds Ease Plenty Cities More Allowing Freed Feed Refined Began Which Fuel Centuries Themselves Toil Use Population Petroleum Millions Millions Of People

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.' Jesse Stone

Music Thought Black White Stations Jockey Black Music Shake Rattle Had He Written Freed New Name Named Disc Rock Rock-N-Roll Up Roll Refused Laid Tune Play Alan Needed

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person. Jillian Hervey

Family Me People Pressure Dancers Dancing Way More Inspired No-One Freed Knew Like Most Dealt Doing Were Up Person Any Artistic Little Really Certain Lane Certain Way Even Growing Growing Up

What I sacrificed as I pursued my dreams was my comfort, not the lives of other people who looked to me to stay afloat. That alone freed me to take more risks, which did pay off in dividends. Having a safety net is an asset that most people do not have. Luvvie Ajayi

Dreams Alone Me Risks People Safety Pay Other Stay Net Having More Dividends Pursued Take Sacrificed Freed Most Looked Comfort Safety Net Off Did Afloat Which Who Lives Asset

Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience. Lyall Watson

Change Experience Water Made Our Air Our Lives Liberating Ancestors Range Respiration Easy Staying Constraints Having Remain Freed New Reach Within Wet Refuge Biggest Reproduction Sensory Breathing Us Expose Whole Lives

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