"The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice."
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"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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"The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it."
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"The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race."
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"Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law."
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"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin."
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"Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly."
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"The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds."
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"The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity."
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"Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall."
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"Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do."
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"LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!"
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"I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
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"The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control."
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"To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life."
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"Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism."
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"But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science."
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"All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering."
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"My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention."
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"The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees."
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