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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to t

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. – Bertrand Russell

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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer. – Bertrand Russell

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Torture
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. – Bertrand Russell

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Freedom
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives mouths. – Bertrand Russell

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Men
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To be honest, Ive always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. Ive earned my own money Ive traveled the world. What would I rebel against? – Emma Watson

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Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. – A. Philip Randolph

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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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Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. – Peace Pilgrim

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Im not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then Ive got some aspects of cool in me, I guess. – Nick Cannon

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife. – Proverb

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The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel

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