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“What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.”
 
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Archibald MacLeish
 
Name:   Archibald MacLeish
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   May 7, 1892
 
Date of Death:   Apr 20,  1982
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
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Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
 
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
 
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
 
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
 
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
 
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