"Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all."
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"Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given."
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"The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions."
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"A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization."
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"To those who are given much, much is expected."
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"Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back."
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"An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for."
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"I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one."
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"Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application."
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"Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation"
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"You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept."
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"According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth."
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"Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment."
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"We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!"
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"Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look."
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"The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up."
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"What was freely given to me, I freely give."
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"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."
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"God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise."
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"One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever."
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