#free will

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted. ↗

— Patrick Gordon

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Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. ↗

— John Acton

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Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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You don't have free will when you have lung cancer. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

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This means that to man God gave a degree of free will. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

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Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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