Quote by Henri Bergson
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. – Henri Bergson

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. – Henri Bergson

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Intelligence
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

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Imagination
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to tear down this wall, a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. – Mitt Romney

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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them? – Kate Millett

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Thats what we do in this country. Thats the American Dream. Thats freedom, and Ill take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners. – Paul Ryan

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We tried not to age, but time had its rage. – Pete Townshend

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. – Thomas Carlyle

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