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• Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

  Laurence Sterne

  Death, Men, Hands

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.155

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• Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Reality, Murder

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

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• Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'

  Ibn Ishaq

  Land, Enemy, Desire

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• A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.

  Adoniram Judson Gordon

  Heart, Son, Affection

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 396), 1895.

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• Mind is a captive of the body.

  Camille Paglia

  Mind, Body

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.46, Canongate Books

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• Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Mesh, Made

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.11, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

  Kobe Bryant

  People, May, Fear Of Failure

  "Kobe Bryant sets mark for misses" by Baxter Holmes, abcnews.go.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

  Arlen Specter

  Party, President, Demand

  "Stand Up to the `Intolerant Right'" by Arlen Specter, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 1995.

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• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

  Rowan Williams

  Taken, Answers, Bills

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• Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, America, Race

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.103, Oxford University Press

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

  Ted Dekker

  Knowing, Giving, Worthless

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• We are all captives of a story.

  Daniel Quinn

  Stories

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• We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Lying, Color

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• Anything that effects our decisions besides that of the Glory of God and His Will Alone is an idol. Why are people so free to do as they please and make decisions off of pleasures, feelings or emotion? It is because they have not been taken captive by the Lord Jesus Christ and He alone does not rule in that life, there are rivals on the throne.

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, Taken, Idols

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• Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

  Mooji

  Mind, Faces, Face Your Fears

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• My conscience is captive to the Word of God

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Worms

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1955). “Works”

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• For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free

  John G. Lake

  Pay The Price, Suffering, Dying

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• Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been filmed in Technicolor more often (34 times), has had a more versatile group of leading men (from John Wayne to John Candy) or has spent more time held captive on a pirate ship than our TCM Star of the Month for July, the magnificent red-headed Maureen O'Hara.

  Robert Osborne

  Beautiful, Stars, Men

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• It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  Margaret Fuller

  Self, Armor, Slave

  Margaret Fuller (1844). “Summer on the Lakes”, p.73, Ardent Media

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• Religious truth is captive in a small number of little manuscripts which guard the common treasures, instead of expanding them. Let us break the seal which binds these holy things; let us give wings to truth that it may fly with the Word, no longer prepared at vast expense, but multitudes everlastingly by a machine which never wearies to every soul which enters life.

  Johannes Gutenberg

  Religious, Wings, Numbers

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• Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Loss, Bird

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.251

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• We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Broken, Desire, Wheat

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Fall, Problem, Defeat

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