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• Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

  Ben Jonson

  Rudeness, Folly, Impudence

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.78

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• There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pain, Silence, Doubt

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

  Simon Bolivar

  War, Hatred, Resistance

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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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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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• You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

  James Dickey

  Hunches, Fine

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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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• 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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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

  Augustus William Hare

  Faith, Believe

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.284

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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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• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Heart, Science, Numbers

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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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• 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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• I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

  Billy Collins

  Notebook, Writing, Doors

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• Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

  Luke Bryan

  Thinking, Media, Social

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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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• 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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• There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

  Joan Chen

  People, Way, Making Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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