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• The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Children, Lessons, Midst

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• If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

  Ariel Pink

  Fall, Mean, Immature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go.

  Will Smith

  Sad, Letting Go, Mean

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• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

  J. I. Packer

  Conceited, Proud, Sake

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• Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

  Beau Willimon

  Self, Leader, Want

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• When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you

  Pablo Picasso

  Worry, Ugly, Complicated

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• A soul living in tune with its internal purpose is bound to create utter magic.

  Drew Chadwick

  Soul, Magic, Tunes

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• Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.

  Peter Guber

  Want, Narrative, Information

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• You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Doctors, Physicians, Born

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• Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Personality, Assuming

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• Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Echoes, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Men, Play

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.76, Routledge

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• All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Luxury, Letters

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.376, Modern Library

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• England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
  Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
  Of watery Neptune.

  William Shakespeare

  Sea, Neptune, Siege

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.

  Deron Williams

  Men, Views, Law

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• In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Garden, Shadow, Longing

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1925). “The Trap”

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• Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Nature, Divinity

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• Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.
  There's nothing situate under heaven's eye
  But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sea, Sky

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Comedy of Errors: Third Series”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
  But qualify the fire's extreme rage,
  Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Fire, Hot

  William Shakespeare (1843). “The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows”

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• In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, People, Robots

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Have your own doctor, who answers to you. If you don't, when the time comes that you get mixed up with hospitals, they'll treat you like a fool. ... You're bound to lose your health at some point, but you don't have to lose your dignity, too.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Doctors, Answers, Fool

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• Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

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• It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Writing, Character, Titles

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• Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.

  Yisroel Salanter

  Men, Imagination, Reason

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• How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Gun, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.65, Trajectory Inc

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