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• I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

  Ugo Betti

  Firsts, Accepted, Duty

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Strong, Men, Spirit

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.181, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Use, Information

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.

  Ramakrishna

  Strong, Mind, Conviction

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• It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Ignorant, Mind

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• The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Order, Feet

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• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Foundation, Moderation, Unstable

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• Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Creating, Trying, Kind

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Self, Meditation, Mind

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2013

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Writing, Adventure

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• How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!

  James Shirley

  Death, Littles, Rooms

  'The Wedding' (1626) act 4, sc. 4

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• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  Terry Eagleton

  Important, Principles, Prejudice

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• Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

  Sydney Brenner

  Challenges, Important, Gone

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• The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Successful, Fighting, Firsts

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• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

  Henry Cavill

  Men, Six, X Men

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• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  John Deacon

  Personality, Four, Clash

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

  Michael Arad

  Differences, Collaboration, Elements

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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• Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. The multiplicity of determinants which affect biological systems limits the power of the experimental method to predict their trends and behavior.

  Rene Dubos

  Destiny, Self, Order

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• Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

  Janet Jackson

  Common Vision, Color, Together

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