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In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Drawing, Western Culture, Pieces

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it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Greta Garbo

Movie, Art, Office

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... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

Fran Drescher

Feet, Band, Maps

Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

Hillary Clinton

Children, Support, Imperfection

Hillary Rodham Clinton (2006). “It Takes a Village”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

David Robinson

Motivational, Dream, Stars

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If you censor yourself, if you cannot articulate your needs, if you cannot articulate your priorities, then whatever you do, putting a little cross in a ballot box, etc, does not represent your view. It is an act of desperation.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Views, Priorities, Doe

"UN Expert on Democracy Highlights Importance of Free Expression, Information". news.un.org. October 28, 2013.

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People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.

Tenley Albright

Girl, Sports, People

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Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

Thomas Huxley

Wisdom, Writing, Men

Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Reading, Temptation, Pennies

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My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.

Firoozeh Dumas

Sports, Long, Worry

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Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

Adrienne Mayor

War, Ideas, Years

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Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a fog. I want to be in as many boxes as possible, describe myself as thickly as possible.

Kalan Sherrard

Fog, Keeping Your Mouth Shut, People

"Hyper subtle sexual ego". Interview with Peter Nowogrodzki, logger.believermag.com. June 4, 2014.

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The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

Kelly Ayotte

Egypt, People, Brotherhood

"August 18: Ray Kelly, Sybrina Fulton, Benjamin Crump, Ben Jealous, Richard Engel, Sen. Jack Reed, Vali Nasr, Robin Wright, Robert Gibbs, Rich Lowry, Donna Edwards, Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. August 18, 2013.

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I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.

Halle Berry

Lonely, Artist, Night

"Comic-Con: Halle Berry On Shattering Stereotypes, ‘Extant’ & ‘Storm’ Movie". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 8, 2015.

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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.

Barack Obama

Government, Views, Should Have

Source: www.nbcnews.com

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I did have a deal for a little while a cigar company that never really materialized that much, except that I ended up with 100 boxes of my own cigars with my signature on them. Which is great, they are wonderful cigars but they never really fulfilled out so now I'm out of it. I can sign up with somebody else or go pick a blend or whatever. I probably will, there is no sense in not doing it.

Ron White

Littles, Signatures, Wonderful

Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.

Pete Seeger

Country, Father, Squares

Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

Richard Simmons

Wind, Laughing, Needs

Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.

Pete Seeger

Mother, Song, Brother

Source: www.wholeearth.com

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The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Seth Godin

Dark, Done, Outside The Box

Interview with Bryan Hutchinson, positivewriter.com.

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Yes, as a people we are spoiled. We look for dinners that take two minutes to cook in our microwave instead of five, and we audibly sigh if the directions on the box require us to stir at the halfway point. Aw, I gotta stir? See what else is in the freezer.

Martha Bolton

Two, People, Cooking

Martha Bolton (2003). “I Think, Therefore, I Have a Headache!: A Laugh-Out-Loud Look at Life”, Bethany House Pub

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As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.

Linda Sunshine

Divorce, Over You, Black

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Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Siddharth Katragadda

Life Is

"Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.

Mary Butts

Song, Father, Tree

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My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

Michael Shanks

Brother, Book, Comic

"Michael Shanks on Smallville and Hawkman!". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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