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• If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.

  Bette Midler

  Air, People, Giving

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• I'm very much still connected to the way that I've always been perceived. And it happens. I'm not trying to play up anything, it is true. I've walked by numerous cars where they've locked the doors, I get into an elevator and someone moves out of the way. I've been to a place where some people think their children shouldn't play with my children. And that breaks my heart.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Children, Moving, Heart

  "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talked about free public higher education going forward, but not dealing with this burden of debt, which has really locked a generation into kind of a hopeless future right now.

  Jill Stein

  Generations, Debt, Hopeless

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.

  Doc Childre

  Real, Technology, Self

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• You are in the depths of despair because you locked in on something or someone that didn't belong to you. I've met many people who have lost everything, especially in these times. People who survive devastating loss have the ability to let go of what they were doing, how much they were earning, and what they feel they are entitled to right now. They may well return to their former status, but their immediate task is to assess their skills and show resilience moving forward.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Moving, Loss

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  Marianne Williamson

  Unconditional Love, Doors, Keys

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 15, 2011

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• We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Responsibility, People, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.

  Lea Thompson

  Doors, Acting, Way

  "Lea Thompson Talks THIN ICE, SWITCHED AT BIRTH, the BACK TO THE FUTURE Broadway Musical, RED DAWN Remake and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

  Elton John

  Fighting, Rights, Behind The Scenes

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Ideas, Sound

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• Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

  Norman Mailer

  Cancer, Cells, Mad

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House

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• Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

  Robert Henri

  Teacher, Plato, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.165, Basic Books

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• Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
  Locked in endless dreams,
  The extremes of all extremes,
  Ope no more, for now Love dies.

  John Ford

  Dream, Grief, Eye

  John Ford (1995). “The lover's melancholy: The broken heart ; 'Tis pity she's a whore ; Perkin Warbeck”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Land, Yugoslavia, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Fashion, Lying, Angel

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilo fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados - we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Land, Roots, White

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• In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. ... But now with mobile technology, we can actually take our children outside into the natural world with their technology.

  Shilo Shiv Suleman

  Children, Technology, Years

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• There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Zero, Law, People

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Giving, Over You

  "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Example, Doe

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• The vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do... i t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it It'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

  Andrew Schneider

  Crush, Real, Sleep

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• Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.

  Geneen Roth

  Choices, Way, Awareness

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Sep 29, 2012

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• ... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

  Charles Dickens

  Doors, Hands, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2013). “A Christmas Treasury”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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