"Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains."

-- Friedrich Schiller

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“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown
“I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.”
“There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.”
“Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.”
“I like punks who also like Saxon. I guess I am one.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.”
“Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.
“It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.”

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