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• What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered, and conducted wars, war criminals? War criminals are not confined to the Axis Powers alone. Roosevelt and Churchill are no less war criminals than Hitler and Mussolini. England, America and Russia have all of them got their hands dyed more or less red - not merely Germany and Japan.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, War, Axes

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• Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Men, Obscenity

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we are confined. Who knows that the whole visible universe is not like a drop of water at the surface of the earth? Inhabitants of that drop of water, as small relative to it as we are relative to the Milky Way, could not possibly imagine that beside the drop of water there might be a piece of iron or a living tissue, in which the properties of matter are entirely different.

  Emile Borel

  Science, Iron, Water

  "Space And Time".

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• The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

  Li Ka-shing

  Country, Encouragement, Integrity

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• Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out. To stand out of the mind makes you ecstatic, brings bliss to you. And great intelligence is released. When you are identified with the mind you cannot be very intelligent because you become identified with an instrument, you become confined by the instrument and its limitations. And you are unlimited - you are consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Intelligent, Meditation

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• The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

  William Hazlitt

  Opportunity, Men, Practice

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.51

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

  Hugh Mackay

  Education, Reading, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Heart, Apples, Celibacy

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.38

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• A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Space, Pedestal

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• Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Architecture, Output

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

  Huston Smith

  Jesus, Defined

  "Huston Smith's painful spiritual odyssey" by John Blake, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Connections, Topics, Intrusion

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• I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Gun, Thinking, Cities

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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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• It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Moments, Form

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of the means of paying their engagements, made on your account. You may observe that their future power is confined to provide common defence and general welfare of the United States. If they apply money to any other purposes, they exceed their powers. The people of the United States who pay, are to be judges how far their money is properly applied.

  David Ramsey

  War, Mean, Judging

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• How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Light, Perfection

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• Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  Aberjhani

  Patriotic, Justice, Humanity

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• Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

  Shane Claiborne

  World, Sanctuary, Circus

  Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro (2010). “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals”, p.327, Zondervan

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• Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Hate, Animal

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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