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• For the hearts of nurses are solid gold, / But their heels are flat and their hands are cold, / And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser / Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer. / Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you, / But nurses are bound that they do things for you.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Phyllis McGinley (1946). “Stones from a glass house: new poems by Phyllis McGinley”, Viking Press

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• One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

  Hermione Gingold

  Success, Awards, America

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• I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Horse, Work, Thinking

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• Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sweet, Kissing, Cities

  Joyce Carol Oates (1988). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, E P Dutton

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Self, Discipline, People

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• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

  John Tillotson

  Passion, Order, Lust

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.121

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• Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Fields

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• Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

  Maria Mitchell

  Brother, Father, Men

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, Judging, Bows

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 14 : The Safeguards of Individual Liberty, 1960.

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• It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

  Pierre Charron

  Passion, May, Easier

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• Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Art, Likes, Chains

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• To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Beautiful, Men, Hunger

  Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr

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• Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want to be a good friend but do not wisely seek good friends are bound to be taken advantage of, abused, neglected, and suffer from their foolish friend choices.

  Mark Driscoll

  Taken, Good Friend, Choices

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• It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

  Barbara Deming

  Movie, Dream, Book

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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• Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?

  John Barlas

  Sound, Lists, Lips

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• Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Law, Your Future, Arranged Marriage

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Ignorance, Lost

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Life And Death, Peculiar, Mastery

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press

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• Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fear, Shadow, Looks

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• Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Looks, Vulture, Vicinity

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• Denial is the lid on our emotional pressure cooker: the longer we leave it on, the more pressure we build up. Sooner or later, that pressure is bound to pop the lid, and we have an emotional crisis.

  Susan Forward

  Emotional, Denial, Pressure

  "Toxic Parents". Book by Susan Forward, May 31, 2010.

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• My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forest s bound;
  The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
  Then plunge to depths profound!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Lakes, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.231, Delphi Classics

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• Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Decorum, Length

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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