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• Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Fire, Feminism

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• Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

  David Carradine

  Scare, Would Be, Way

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• There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

  Antonio Machado

  Change, Personality, Doe

  Antonio Machado (1963). “Juan de Mairena”, Univ of California Press

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• At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly

  Primo Levi

  Mean, Men, Survival

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

  Ugo Betti

  Firsts, Accepted, Duty

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

  Hafez

  World, Remember, Maidens

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• You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

  James Dickey

  Hunches, Fine

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• Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Strong, Men, Spirit

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.181, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Use, Information

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

  Ramakrishna

  Night, Guilt, Fool

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• By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.

  Ramakrishna

  Strong, Mind, Conviction

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• It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Ignorant, Mind

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• Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

  Frank Capra

  Opposites, Situation, Turns

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• Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.

  Israel Shenker

  Hero, Self, Passionate

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.

  Augustus William Hare

  Faith, Believe

  Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.284

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• The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Order, Feet

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• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Foundation, Moderation, Unstable

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Two, Knowing

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• Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Creating, Trying, Kind

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Self, Meditation, Mind

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2013

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• Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is either full or trying to get full, to balance with the number of protons-to balance the number of positive and negative charges. An atom is like a human heart, you see.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Heart, Science, Numbers

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• There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Beautiful, Running

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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• For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Science, Biographies, Golden

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• I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Spiritual, Writing, Adventure

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