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This quotation examines the core nature of Freedom as articulated by Thomas Moore. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Freedom provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist. Widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard", his fame and reputation rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies. In these, Moore set to old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a narrative of Irish dispossession, loss, and resistance. In his romantic work Lalla Rookh (1817), in which these same themes are explored in an elaborate orientalist allegory, Moore achieved wider critical recognition and popularity. Translated into several languages, and adapted and arranged for musical performance by, among others, Robert Schumann, the chivalric verse-narrative established Moore as one of the leading exemplars of European romanticism.

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"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."

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"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."

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"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed."

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"True change takes place in the imagination."

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"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

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"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."

— John Charles Polanyi
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought."

— Jimmy Wales
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