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“The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do.”
Stephen Hawking
,
A Brief History of Time
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
,
The Prince
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“I wear the chain I forged in life . . . I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
Charles Dickens
,
A Christmas Carol
“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
,
Notes from Underground
“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”
George MacDonald
,
The Princess and the Goblin
“Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
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