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Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
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rules
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G.K. Chesterton |
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It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.
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imagination
responsibilities
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Haruki Murakami |
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When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.
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monsters
responsibilities
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David Eagleman |
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...pointed out that the corporation enjoys the same rights as a living person under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This concept was upheld in 1886 by the Supreme Court in 'Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company' and has been a fact of law ever since. I emphasized to those executives that the corporation should also be required to accept the same responsibilities as those expected of a person; it too should be a good citizen, an honorable, ethical member of the community. In the case of international corporations, that community has to be defined as the world.
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corporations
responsibilities
supreme-court
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John Perkins |
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Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities. -Aras
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responsibilities
rights
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Karen Traviss |
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As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.
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duties
duty
emancipation
end
freedom
obligation
outcome
reality
release
responsibilities
responsibility
sever
ties
truth
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Robin Hobb |
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NoMarch felt the forces of fate closing about him and pushing him to a decision. He feebly fought them off till he could have another look at the flat. Then, baked and subdued still more by the unexpected presence of Mrs. Grosvenor Green herself, who was occupying it so as to be able to show it effectively, he took it. He was aware more than ever of its absurdities; he knew that his wife would never cease to hate it; but he had suffered one of those eclipses of the imagination to which men of his temperament are subject, and into which he could see no future for his desires. He felt a comfort in irretrievably committing himself, and exchanging the burden of indecision for the burden of responsibility.
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indecision
responsibilities
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William Dean Howells |
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And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.
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our-generation
responsibilities
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Mark Kurlansky |