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• Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Book, Use, Littles

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• The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

  Garrett Hardin

  Believe, Men, Animal

  "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 13 Dec. 1968

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• The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy that society has a supply of health locked away which can be mined and marketed.

  Ivan Illich

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Toil

  Ivan Illich (1982). “Medical nemesis: the expropriation of health”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.

  Aphex Twin

  Lying, Kids, Should Have

  "Tank boy". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2001.

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• The specific patterns, out of which a building or a town is made
  may be alive or dead. To the extent they are alive, they let our inner
  forces loose, and, set us free; but when they are dead they keep
  us locked in inner conflict.

  Christopher Alexander

  Alive, May, Patterns

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.10, New York : Oxford University Press

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• They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Tired, Locked Up

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• Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

  Adrien Broner

  Brother, Motivation, Block

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• I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mind, Age, Blocked

  "Spielberg & Lucas: The EW Q&A". Interview with Steve Daly, ew.com. April 18, 2008.

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• If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

  Agnes Denes

  Flower, Littles, Bees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our Heavenly bodies will be able to dematerialise, pass from dimension to dimension, walk right through walls and locked doors as Jesus did, appear and disappear at will and travel with the speed of thought!

  David Berg

  Jesus, Wall, Doors

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• I think about everything first. I think about the scenario: the story and the characters, what I'm trying to say and I'll think about that for a couple of days until it's all locked in and then when I get to an instrument it'll just fall out. But the song's kind of all ready there in my head.

  Graham Russell

  Song, Couple, Fall

  "Air Supply’s Graham Russell on Lost in Love , the Musical". Interview with Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Creativity, Energy

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Guitar, Rooms

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• His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

  Robert Burns

  Gentleman, Apparel, Brass

  Robert Burns (1863). “The Poetical Works”, p.228

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• There are certain days that are forever locked in our memories. They represent special times, places, and people that we capture in the scrapbook of our minds. Just a fleeting thought of these memories can bring us back to that special time and place as well as the emotion we felt when we were there.

  Jim Stovall

  Memories, People, Forever

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• Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I.
  My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Oddities, Sky, Feet

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “Ill-Made Mute”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  Bob Goff

  Dirty, Eye, Dark

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• It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

  Richard Donner

  Movie, Hurt, Couple

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• Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

  Ellen Langer

  Learning, Knowledge, Views

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• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Life, Acne, Miserable

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• When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.

  Jakob Bohme

  Blessed, Heart, Sadness

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• No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

  Robert Brustein

  Perception, Ongoing, Enlightened

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• The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

  Glen Hansard

  Technology, Smartphones, People

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• As painters...we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insights will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Forever, Vision

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