“ Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely. ”
- Don Delillo- Copy
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“ It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set. ”
- Bill Paxton- Copy
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“ We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. ”
- Angela Y. Davis- Copy
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“ Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time. ”
- George Voinovich- Copy
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“ Change can be exhilarating, joyous, liberating. But it can also be terrifying, because, in a deeper sense, you are questioning your very identity and sense of value. But take the risk. It's worth it. ”
- Dee Hock- Copy
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“ Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way. ”
- Dido Armstrong- Copy
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“ Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ”
- Earle Brown- Copy
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“ There was the movement on the West Coast and there was just a general consciousness that was coming about with all young people, unifying them- being against the war, being for the legalization of pot and the liberating of sexual taboos and restrictions and ignorant points of view that we learned growing up and learned to hate… ”
- Michael Davis- Copy
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