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Corliss Lamont Quotes

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Corliss Lamont

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: March 28, 1902 - April 26, 1995

Topics

Character Freedom Independence Self

Rituals are the building blocks of life, my way of cobbling an entire summer together from incidental wisps.

Andre Aciman

Life Together Building Summer Way

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

Tua Tagovailoa

Faith People Me Giving Loving Say

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

Said Write Years Like Absolutely

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.

Robert Burton

Life Nature Love Morning Sun Night

Our dad introduced us to all of it - to the weights, to eating healthy, all that good stuff. He introduced it, got on us every once in a while, and left it up to us if we wanted to do it. And seeing my older brothers do it right in front of me, I wanted to do it because I looked up to them.

Rob Gronkowski

Good Me Eating Seeing Healthy Right

I grew up on R-rated action films, and you didn't blink.

Rob Liefeld

Action You Up Blink Grew Films

Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.

Mary Helen Bowers

Beautiful Pain Joy Moving Strong

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Haidt

Good Business Government Society See

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Donna Leon

School Television Graduate School

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Christopher Love

Work I Am Prison Now Palace Going

Carl Reiner is perfection.

Bonnie Hunt

Perfection

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Peter Kropotkin

Character Walls Man Crime Will More