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• I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound.

  Iceberg Slim

  Thinking, Feelings, Sound

  Meraki Mag Interview, www.merakiafrica.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Caves, Virtue, Dwellers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Speech, Association, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.149, Penguin Books India

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• With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.

  George Saunders

  Eye, Writing, Trying

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• There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific.

  Nicholson Baker

  Stars, Ideas, Looks

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008 Share.

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• We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Dwelling Place, Cells

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• But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many.

  John Adams

  Education, Money, Memorable

  John Adams (2016). “Papers of John Adams, Volume 18: December 1785 - January 1787”, p.218, Harvard University Press

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• The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Giving, Contentment

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• Everybody who works under any system feels confined. It is a natural reaction. You are confined to a certain extent. You are confined if you work in a bank, if you paint. You are confined, in a sense, to your art - the enclosure of your mind. Everybody should break out.

  Frank Capra

  Art, Mind, Break Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

  Alfred Adler

  Small Rooms, Tea, Cosy

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• Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

  Brian Foote

  Space, Design, Architecture

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• Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Light, Views

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• When we see land as a community to which we belong,
  we may see it with love and respect. - Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved
  by reappraising things unnatural, tame, and confined
  in terms of things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Community, Wild And Free

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• Life is not confined to a four inch screen.

  Jose A. Teixeira

  Four, Life Is, Inches

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• Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

  Patricia Leavy

  Opportunity, People, September 11

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• Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Fire, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series”, p.165, Library of America

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• Only a prisoner who has been confined for long behind high walk can appreciate the extraordinary psychological value of these outside walks and open views.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Views, Long, Appreciate

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1955). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India”

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• But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Character, Scripts, Insight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.

  John Lloyd Young

  Italian, Thinking, Law

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• Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped." God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.

  Philip Yancey

  Running, Heart, Loving Life

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• Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

  Jean Paul

  Past, Reality, Two

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• Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls.

  Lil Wayne

  Wall, Jail, Locks

  "Remembering Lil Wayne's Letters From Riker's Island" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2010.

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• Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

  Eudora Welty

  Scene, Situation, Humans

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Leadership, Uplifting, Ghetto

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.110, Book Tree

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• I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Country, Flower, Book

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