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• When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

  Laura Linney

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  "Laura Linney Interview THE BIG C". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 16, 2010.

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• I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

  Michel Gondry

  Thinking, Actors, Stuff

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Mean, Past

  "BBC Forum Questions And Answers". www.antonygormley.com. 2002.

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• But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.

  Esther Vilar

  Winning, Opportunity, Men

  Esther Vilar (2005). “The Manipulated Man”, p.17, Pinter & Martin Publishers

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• The thing that really got me about Janis the most, was how liberated she was. She stood in that power even though it was kind of that platform of blues of being completely tormented, that enabled her to just stand there and let it go at a time when woman were not doing that...she just came out in the completely undone, unwrapped way and I think spoke right out of a woman's soul. Directly.

  Ann Wilson

  Thinking, Soul, Let It Go

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• The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

  Angelus Silesius

  All Things, Awakened

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• The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ideas, Dying, Doe

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• Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.

  Dan Quayle

  Essentials, Want

  Dan Quayle's remarks during his campaign in Kansas City, Missouri (September 2, 1992), as quoted in The New York Times, September 3, 1992.

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• I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Life, Mind, Earth

  "Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress" by United States, Congress, Vol. 110, part 17, (p. 22821), 1964.

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• The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

  Paulo Freire

  Former, Feels, Contrary

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

  George W. Bush

  People, President, Achieve

  "Bush on His Legacy: I 'Liberated' Iraqis". Interview with Dorothy Bush Koch, abcnews.go.com. November 28, 2008.

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• When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

  Brice Marden

  Drinking, Smoking, Cigarette

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about how it's unfair that the artists didn't benefit while they're sitting on stuff that they "liberated," but that's another story for another time.

  Mike Royer

  Artist, People, Sitting

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Men, Identity

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.106, Penguin

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• It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The notions of freedom and human rights were present at the dawn of Western civilization, as ideals at least, but have gradually come to fruition through supreme acts of self-criticism.

  Ibn Warraq

  Religious, Gay, Civilization

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.

  George Jackson

  Song, War, Army

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

  David Bohm

  Creativity, Ideas, Fundamentals

  David Bohm, F. David Peat (2000). “Science, Order, and Creativity”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

  Eric Morecambe

  Regret, Thinking, Echoes

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• When I was 11 years old and I was on a road trip with my family. I turned to my dad and said, "Do you believe in Adam and Eve?" And he said he didn't think so. I remember that felt like a slap in the face, because if my parents questioned Adam and Eve, then they potentially questioned everything within Catholicism. Eventually that idea led to my feeling liberated, but at that time it was very scary.

  Alanis Morissette

  Dad, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.

  Philip Kitcher

  Vanity, Anxiety, Historical

  Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press

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• Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Information, Way

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• Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Mirrors, Joy, Mind

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• The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Men, Mountain, He Man

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