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• The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Art, Creativity, Break

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• If you take the shackles off your imagination, you can go anywhere with science fiction.

  Lani Tupu

  Imagination, Fiction, Ifs

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• The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Safety, Care, Infinite

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.104

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• I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

  James Madison

  Unjust, Enlightened, Legislature

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

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• It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.

  John Mark McMillan

  Religious, Writing, Heart

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Writing, People

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

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• How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

  William Davenant

  Feet, Liberty, Heroic

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• I am a king's daughter, And if I cared to care, The moon that has no mistress Would flutter in my hair. No one dares to cherish What I choose to crave. Never have I hungered, For that I did not have I am a kings daughter, And I grow old within The prison of my person, The shackles of my skin. And I would run away And beg from door to door, Just to see your shadow Once, and never more.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Daughter, Running, Kings

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• DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally. Keep your mind focused on the Art of Peace, and do not criticize other teachers or traditions. The Art of Peace never restrains or shackles anything. It embraces all and purifies everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Art, Shining

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.

  Esther Vilar

  Winning, Opportunity, Men

  Esther Vilar (2005). “The Manipulated Man”, p.17, Pinter & Martin Publishers

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• The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Parent, Mind, Reason

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.190, Booklassic

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• How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Reality, Appreciate, Secret

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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Long, One Day

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• It's time to believe again in the potential of private enterprise set free from the shackles of over-bearing federal government.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Government, Enterprise

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.

  Emilie Loring

  Real, Adventure, Selfishness

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• I spent centuries I your arms. This time our joining will be controlled by me, and you will revel in the pleasure I can bring you. Throw off the shackles of your distant goddess and come to me. Be my love, truly, in body as well as soul and I will give you the world!

  P. C. Cast

  Giving, Soul, Joining

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

  Vijay Mallya

  Class, Broken, Want

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• When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun.

  Alice Moore Hubbard

  Children, Forever, Soul

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• How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Land, Feet

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• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Nice, School, Slave Owners

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• When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

  Martha Beck

  Choices, Focus, Decision

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• The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Rich, Poor

  "Draft Of Telegram To All Soviets Of Deputies Concerning The Worker-Peasant Alliance". Collected Works, Volume 28, p. 58, www.marxists.org.

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• Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fall, Feet, Opposites

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1992, Manonmani Publishers

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• I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

  Ice Cube

  Artist, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I live in a country where we put children in shackles and in concrete cells. Working together, with righteousness and hope, we can create a country that is about reverence and reconciliation, not a world of shackles and concrete cells.

  Lateefah Simon

  Country, Children, Cells

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