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• Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

  Bea Arthur

  Fighting, Animal, Choices

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• In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. He has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

  James Madison

  Religious, Communication, Men

  "Advice to My Country".

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• The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Moving, Law, Choices

  Emanuel Lasker (2013). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.77, SCB Distributors

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• Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Choices, Unemployment, Conditions

  "Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman".

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• Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

  Martin Luther

  Egypt, Names, Creating

  Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I truly want what you truly want-nothing different and nothing more. Don't you see that is My greatest gift to you? If I wanted for you something other than what you want for you, and then went so far as to cause you to have it, where is your free choice? How can you be a creative being if I am dictating what you shall be, do, and have? My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Choices

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.157, Penguin

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• Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spring, Men, Choices

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• Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

  Sylvia Plath

  Suicide, Choices, Doubt

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

  Mario Bunge

  Reality, Ice, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

  Erik Erikson

  Determination, Exercise, Self

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Insight and Responsibility”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

  Martin Luther

  Mean, Choices, Rooms

  Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.323, Fortress Press

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• When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

  Thomas Szasz

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• As women began to challenge their own internalized views of a woman's proper place, their desire and demand for equal status and free choice began to grow exponentially.

  Susan Faludi

  Equality, Views, Choices

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Cutting, Cfs

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• Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Spiritual, Mean, Independent

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• Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Choices, Mankind, Greatest Gifts

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• It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Choices, Grace, Done

  "On Grace & Free Choice". Book by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1988.

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• No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wall, Decision, Choices

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Blessing, People

  "Pastor Rick Warren". 'This Week', abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

  Gloria Steinem

  Husband, Confused, Choices

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• Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices.  Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all.  All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate.  So, we're influenced.  So there can't be free choices.

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Individual Choice, People

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• Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

  Edith Hamilton

  Men, Law, Choices

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• We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

  Abraham Maslow

  Maturity, Safety, Choices

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

  George Will

  War, Fate, Choices

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