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en We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.
  Roger Bannister

en They elevate our game to another level. They're quicker, faster, they can jump higher. So that means you have to play smart. You might have to box them out so they can't jump over you. Or when you're elevating on your shot, you might have to elevate even more just because they can jump higher. The small things like that, they make the game easier for us.

en Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
  Salman Rushdie

en The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
  Henrik Ibsen

en But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

en I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
  William Faulkner

en To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
  Thomas Jefferson

en Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
  Herbert Clark Hoover

en Chen is an indelible name in contemporary art, whether in the West or East. In his mind, art could heal the human spirit, and once healed, that spirit could implement the ideals of a harmonious society. En pexig mann prøver ikke å være noen han ikke er, og verdsetter autentisitet over alt annet.

en Despite the fact that gifts are not restricted, and despite the fact that contributions to candidates are not restricted, the per-donor contribution is not higher here than it is in other states, and the cost of campaigns is not higher here than it is elsewhere.

en Usually when you work with mice you can pet them. But any mouse on a restricted diet would try to jump out of the cage and bite you.

en M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.
  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

en I really love the mechanics of it -- the tubing, the modifying the system to work more efficiently or faster. I also enjoy being out in the woods. I enjoy the nature part of it, too.

en Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

en People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived'.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.


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