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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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