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• I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

  Kathy Griffin

  Sexy, Men, People

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Climbing, Wind

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• Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

  Agatha Christie

  Bars, Defence

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Masterpieces of murder”, Dodd Mead

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• Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Growing Up, Memories, Children

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• The resurrection of Jesus was simply God's unwillingness to take our 'no' for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside us, strengthening us in this life. The good news of the resurrection of Jesus is not that we shall die and go home to be with him, but that he has risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick prisoner brothers with him.

  Clarence Jordan

  God, Death, Christian

  Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

  Raymond Aubrac

  Jobs, Giving, Comforting

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• The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

  Anne Desclos

  Depth, Kinky, Speechless

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• Well, it is all over now. The battle is lost, and many of us are prisoners, many are dead, many wounded, bleeding and dying. Your Soldier lives and mourns and but for you, my darling, he would rather, a million times rather, be back there with his dead, to sleep for all time in an unknown grave.

  George Pickett

  Military, War, Sleep

  George Edward Pickett, La Salle Corbell Pickett (1913). “The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett”

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• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  Erving Goffman

  Meaningful, Groups, Pilots

  Erving Goffman (2017). “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates”, p.17, Routledge

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• Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Blood, Forever, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 81, 1895.

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• Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no dispatches sent to court to procure his liberty; but many to the churches, to help them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free... The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

  William Gurnall

  Fall, Church, Liberty

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• The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But we are destroying crops, setting fire to entire villages and to the people in them. We are not performing the works of mercy but the works of war.

  Dorothy Day

  War, Nursing, Fire

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• I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

  Michel Patini

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• The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Breathing, Bags, Necks

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• Should you encounter the enemy, he will be defeated! No quarter will be given! Prisoners will not be taken! Whoever falls into your hands is forfeited. Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem mighty in history and legend, may the name German be affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German.

  Wilhelm II

  Kings, Fall, Taken

  "Hun Speech". Address in Bremerhaven to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China, germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. July 27, 1900.

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• If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others - that had no concern for human beings.

  Dick Durbin

  Believe, Fbi Agents, Mad

  Speech on the Senate floor, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2005.

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• I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

  Edwin Edwards

  House, Citizens, Models

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• I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

  Ana Tijoux

  Song, Creativity, Reflection

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation. Caught up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with God. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Thinking, Persistence

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• The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiving, Doe, Firsts

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• When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Russia, Transition

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.

  Victoria Osteen

  Doe, Realizing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jail, Doe, Tasks

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Strict, Observance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Jail, Demand, Letters

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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