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Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.

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Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.

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Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

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The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

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How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

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My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

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The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

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To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

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As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

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What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

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The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

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If I am real, if I am speaking from the heart zone, the right words will come. They will come a spoonful at a time, in the proper mixture.

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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

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The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

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When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

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Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

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I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.

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To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.
The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

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The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

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To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

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While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish.

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When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

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The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

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