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• I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Giving, Rejection, Looks

  Song: I'm Goin' Down, Album: Born in the U.S.A., 1984

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• I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Law, Facts, Duty

  "History in the Making: Dems Force Debate on Ohio Voting Irregularities". www.democracynow.org. January 7, 2005.

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• How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Self, Evil

  "Third time lucky" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2002.

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

  Aleister Crowley

  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Gold, Use, Cotton

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• The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Real, Fame, Bummer

  "Fame According To Me" by Paulina Porizkova, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

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• The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

  Gordon Strachan

  Football, People, Training

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• Within an atom there can be a billion kingdoms, endless. But all of them are bound by the cycle of birth and death. They all come into being for a while and then vanish.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Girlfriend, Husband

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• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

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• Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Mean, Hatred

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

  Criss Jami

  Artist, Being Different, Labels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

  Trent Lott

  Long, Grandparent, Vision

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• You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Laughter, Memories, Home

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• Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

  Laura Mulvey

  Men, Order, Males

  Laura Mulvey (1989). “Visual and Other Pleasures”, p.15, Springer

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• There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Religious, Attitude, Men

  "Slavery and Freedom". Book by Nikolai Berdyaev, 1939.

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.

  Martin Niemoller

  Brother, War, Believe

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• Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Revolution, Deny, Criticize

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• But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Time, Yesterday, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Men, Profound, Action

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.167

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Pain, Philosophical

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• Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise-and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost.

  Emily Doskow

  Wise, Moving, Divorce

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