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• Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Night, Giving

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• He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

  Thomas Gray

  Life, Eye, Angel

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 95 (on Milton)

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Struggle, Mean, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Stupid, People, United States

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• The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Fate, Doctors, House

  Joseph Stiglitz (2015). “The Great Divide”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

  Christopher Dawson

  Race, East, Culture

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• We are convinced that the Rosary, if devotely used is bound to benefit not only the individual but society at large.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Rosary, Benefits, Individual

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• We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream bids us, Demolish it. We wish to believe we're separate from one another, but the Dream insists, We are in this together. We are pleased to believe Time is a one-way river from past to present to future, yet the Dream reveals, All three times flow into one. We wish to seek pure virtue and avoid all stain, but the Dream avers, The dark and the light are braided and bound.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Wall, Believe

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• Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Freedom, Criticism, Helping

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• The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

  Ollie Johnston

  Simple, Circles, Shapes

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• Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
  I shun all signs of anchorage, because
  The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.

  Claude McKay

  Adventure, Zest, Law

  Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.191, University of Illinois Press

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• If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

  Tracy Kidder

  Long, Enough, Small Places

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• I am not bound by material things. It's being successful that drives me forward. I love success. I don't wake up in the morning thinking 'Great - I've got one million pounds in the bank'. I wake up happy because I am a successful part of a successful team. It's that success that brings all the media coverage, the first-night parties, the endorsements. I will never lose sight of that. It has come very quickly - sooner than even I expected. But it's great to know that if I continue in the same vein, then I can do exactly what I want with the rest of my life. I will be financially secure.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Morning, Team, Party

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• Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Light, Space

  "Beyond the Planet Earth". Book by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1920.

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• God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time of need, but if you have not repented, how can you expect His aid? The same power God expends on the believer's salvation will be spent on your damnation, for He has bound Himself under oath to destroy every impenitent soul.

  William Gurnall

  Judgement, Soul, Damnation

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• America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Blood

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Winning, Organization

  Sandy Koufax, Edward Linn (1966). “Koufax”

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• You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Ambitious, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on War”, p.183, Algonquin Books

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• Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Mean, Men

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

  Ben Marcus

  Language, Failing, Desperate

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage

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• Christianity israrely understood by those outside its bounds. In fact, this is probably one of the greatest tasks confronting the apologist–to rescue Christianity from misunderstandings.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Tasks, Facts, Christianity

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• Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

  Rachel

  Passion, Men, Balance

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• Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.

  Ernst Mayr

  Mistake, Two, Physicians

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