Mother Angelica

When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.

American Educator

Lysander Spooner

All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

American Philosopher

Robert Blaha

Send me to Washington, and if I can't make a difference, I'll voluntarily come back after just one term. Cut the deficit, slash illegal immigration in half, fix our horrific tax system - or I'll come home and help find somebody that can. That's my product guarantee.

American Politician

Jameela Jamil

Kim Kardashian was the first time I've seen a woman tormented about her weight gain while having a baby. But at least she asks for that attention by voluntarily obsessing over her weight publicly on her social media. But now nobody is safe.

English Celebrity

Jeb Bush

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jackie Speier

When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Milton Friedman

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

American Economist

George W. Bush

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

American President

Saint Francis de Sales

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

Swiss Clergyman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

American Leader

Using 'voluntarily' often implies a positive or helpful action taken by someone.

Positive Action

It suggests someone is taking initiative, not waiting to be asked.

Personal Initiative

'Voluntarily' implies that there was no obligation or expectation to take action.

Not Obligatory

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 good that we build out of private goods we do it voluntarily we do it through standardized legal tools we do it through standardized technologies that's all the commons is it's something that we build together because we think it's important and a commons of data is something that's really unique because

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 and stand in front of their family and stand in front of the cameras and stand in front of the whole nation and say, "I am conceding the race, voluntarily. Thank you to my supporters. The other person has won now, congratulations to them, let's unite behind them, let's move on, let's be one country.

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 i would try it only if you know there is nothing in the world that can save me from whatever i'm going through why would anyone voluntarily allow himself to become a meal for a blood-sucking leech rajiv is convinced this leech will provide relief for his psoriasis he's tried western medicine and it

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 You can record, and oh, by the way, they also put a phone into this. So this functions as your hearing aid and also as your phone. And at that point, somebody might actually want to have a prosthetic voluntarily. All of these thousands of loosely connected little pieces are coming together,

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 instinctively understand the profound importance of it. It is true that as human beings, we're social animals, which means we have a need for other people to know what we're doing and saying and thinking, which is why we voluntarily publish information about ourselves online.

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 so he also studied great speeches and acting. To get rid of an odd habit he had of involuntarily lifting his shoulder, he practiced his speeches in front of a mirror, and he suspended a sword from the ceiling so that if he raised his shoulder, it would hurt.

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 but it's important for Cisco to talk with a man who's done this education is a vital part of what the team does Sisca can't convince him to hand over the orangutangs voluntarily and understand

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 fish and feed our families I also met Oliver the U by one of the guards voluntarily guarding our marine sanctuaries time and time again he would risk his their life in order to protect what he

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 Would you give me some sense of whether or not you're here voluntarily? Yeah. OK. Alright. Awesome. OK. So -- it's just super helpful feedback.