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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment,

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women
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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Thats part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. – Lester Maddox

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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects. – Leigh Steinberg

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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. – Theodor Adorno

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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. – Saul Alinsky

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