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• ... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Science, Suffering Of Others, Effort

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• No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Covenant, Higher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, May, Venture

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• Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Loneliness, Mind, Earth

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• You are not bound. You have got free will. You cannot change the experiences, the results of Prarabdha but you can change your future by right thinking and right action and thus make your will pure and irresistible. You can attain Self-realisatio n with the help of a dynamic will.

  Sivananda

  Thinking, Self, Helping

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• When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon
  But small, appear most long and terrible;
  So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,
  Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds,
  Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death,
  Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons.
  Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice,
  Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves:
  Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus,
  While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff,
  And sweat with an Imagination's weight.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Fate, Son

  "Dramatik Works".

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• Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Moving, Air, Dust

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• The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ambition, Men, Animal

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Sadness, Men

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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Golf, Balls

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• A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Sensitive Person, Mad

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• Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

  Antonio Porchia

  Self, Somewhere Else, Bears

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• The world is bound in secret knots.

  Athanasius Kircher

  Secret, World, Knots

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• Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.

  Seneca the Younger

  States, Dues, Security

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• Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief, Light, Sorrow

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• The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Fall, Rope

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Usual, World, Contribution

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• The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

  May Sarton

  People, Culture, Looks

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

  Ben Jonson

  Rudeness, Folly, Impudence

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered”, p.78

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• There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the happy state- or, at least, to the state when pain keeps within bounds.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Pain, Silence, Doubt

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

  Lucy Larcom

  Christian, Mean, Ideas

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• Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.

  Simon Bolivar

  War, Hatred, Resistance

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