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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

~George Woodcock

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You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

~George Woodcock

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It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

~George Woodcock

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My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

~George Woodcock

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They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

~George Woodcock

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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

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I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

~George Woodcock

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I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

~George Woodcock

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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

~George Woodcock

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What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

~George Woodcock

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: May 8th, 1912

Died: January 28th, 1995

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