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• Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

  Julien Benda

  Leader, Honor, Crowds

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 110-111, 1927.

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• We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Leaving, Undone

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Wind, Long, People

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Ignorance, Men, Law

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.209

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• No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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• Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

  Huston Smith

  Destiny, Church, World

  Huston Smith (1959). “The Religions of Man”

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• An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

  Anthony Trollope

  Law, Editors, Individual

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.197

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• My life is like shattered glass." said the visitor. "My soul is tainted with evil. Is there any hope for me? "Yes," said the Master. "There is something whereby each broken thing is bound again and every stain made clean." "What?" "Forgiveness" "Whom do I forgive?" "Everyone: Life, God, your neighbor especially yourself." "How is that done?" "By understanding that no one is to blame," said the Master. "NO ONE.

  Anthony de Mello

  Glasses, Broken, Evil

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• The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Land, Rivers

  "The Book of the Indians of North America". Book by Samuel G. Drake, 1835.

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• I always like to say that no matter what you want to do in life, if you stick with it, you're bound to eventually get good at it!

  Rick Tramonto

  Want, Matter, Sticks

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  "The Beautiful in Music: A Contribution to the Revisal of Musical Aesthetics". Book by Eduard Hanslick, 1854.

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• I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

  Derrick Jensen

  Men, Land, Dimes

  Derrick Jensen (2002). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.102, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.

  L. Neil Smith

  Rights, Government, Bills

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Yellow, Shadow, Slumber

  Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

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• Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Spiritual, Art, Mean

  "Manifesto Proletkult" by Theo van Doesburg, 1923.

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• With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Ambition, Law

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.159, Columbia University Press

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• If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Freedom, Thinking, Goal

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.878, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, World, Subjects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

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• Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

  Dogen

  Blossoming, Emptiness, Grass

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• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Spiritual, Emotional

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• Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

  Fay Weldon

  Stubborn, Poverty

  Fay Weldon (2007). “Auto da Fay: A Memoir”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

  Teresa of Avila

  Beautiful, Soul, Liberty

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• While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Rights, Ordinary, Needs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.182, Library of America

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• I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

  Jean Ingelow

  Heart, Thinking, Cheerful

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.227

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