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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
 Katharine Anthony

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
 Katharine Anthony
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
 Katharine Anthony
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
 Katharine Anthony