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Quote by Yakov Smirnoff
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love. – Yakov Smirnoff

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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as weve heard in fairy tales. – Yakov Smirnoff

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teacher
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Yakov Smirnoff
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel. – Yakov Smirnoff

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Education
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Freedom
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Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America – especially as a female. – Katy Perry

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Freedom

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinsons. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, theres freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldnt have otherwise found myself in. – Michael J. Fox

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Freedom

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. – Andre Breton

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Freedom

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind. – Rumi

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Ive been in plenty of situations where someone Im dating had more time for a console than me. – Josie Maran

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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.” – Henry David Thoreau

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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. – Sidney Sheldon

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