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“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.” Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” - 1849

“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” - 1988

“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” - 2002

“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” - 1864

“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” - 1843

“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” - 1532

“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” - 1872

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