McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
When I see people like Pietersen bat, I wish that I'd freed up a bit as a batsman, but it's very easy to say now.
He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.
A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.
If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.
Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
For he who has died has been freed from sin...14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more unpopular decisions.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.
The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.
The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do the same.
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.
Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.
I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.
I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles.
All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.
At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.
The FREED Vets Act will make student debt forgiveness for eligible disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future.
To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.
Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song I really loved and related to.
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
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