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• Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Pride, Reality

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• A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

  Josh Groban

  Beautiful, Morning, Eye

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• But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

  William Robertson Smith

  Aquariums, Religion, Essentials

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of words must be used if it is to be binding. No oath is necessary for the truthful person... Their word is so reliable that nothing more than a statement is needed from them.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Important, Truthful

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• Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

  William Carey

  Missionary, Lord, Missions

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• The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

  Donald Hall

  Form, Verses, Free Verse

  Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.34, University of Michigan Press

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• Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

  Theodore White

  America, Political, Politics

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• And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Sea, Literature

  Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.120, CUA Press

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• Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.

  Arthur Eddington

  Knowledge, Science, Soul

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Facts

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• Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.

  Pope Pius XI

  Country, Men, Church

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• THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

  William Blackstone

  God, Country, Law

  Sir William Blackstone (1973). “The Sovereignty of the Law: Selections from Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England”, p.29, Springer

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• Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.

  Mati Unt

  Depression, Children, Book

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• The law established by the Creator, which has existed from the beginning, extends over the whole globe, is everywhere and at all times binding upon mankind.

  Rufus King

  Law, Mankind, All Time

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• In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Blood

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.49

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• What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Book, Shipping, Printing

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Struggle, Reality, Survival

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• Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

  Stephen King

  Book, Gun, Cold

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• My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

  Gary Bettman

  Feelings, Should, Contracts

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Romance, Mystery

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Thinking, Evil, Forever

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• I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.

  Ray Bradbury

  Art, Philosophy, Book

  "Fahrenheit 451". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1953.

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• The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.

  John Lydon

  Records, Nonsense, Contracts

  "John Lydon boosts his Public Image with new album". Interview With Iain Blair, www.reuters.com. May 25, 2012.

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