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1
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Clarence Darrow

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nature is as strong as she is pitiless

2
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john watson

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behaviour can be predicted

3
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John Galworthy

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life calls the tune and we dance

4
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Sam Harris

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You cannot decide what your will, will decide

5
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Viktor Frankl

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man is not fully conditioned or determined

6
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plato

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your destiny shall be allotted to you

7
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Richard Dawkins

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we can override biology with free will

8
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Aquinas

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man chooses not our of necessity but freely

9
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catechism 600

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when he establishes is eternal plan of ‘predestination’, he includes i it each persons free response to his grace’

10
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calvin

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eternal life is foreordained for some and eternal damnation for others

11
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romans 8

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those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to likeness of his son

12
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JS Mill

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it is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill, it is because their consciences are weak’

13
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John Searl

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a gap between having reasons to do something and doing it

14
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Volatair

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pear trees cannot bear bananas

15
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john Hospers

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it is all a matter of luck

16
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spinoza

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there is no absolute free will.. the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause’