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• To a large degree, we are still bound to the modern scientific spirit, that characterizes reality merely by its material and mechanic aspects, without including life, consciousness and the intimate communion with that which poets, musicians and artists bring us in their magnificent works.

  Leonardo Boff

  Artist, Reality, Environmental

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• Perhaps the simplest example is a synthetic plastic, which unlike natural materials, is not degraded by biological decay. It therefore persists as rubbish or is burned-in both cases causing pollution. In the same way, a substance such as DDT or lead, which plays no role in the chemistry of life and interferes with the actions of substances that do, is bound to cause ecological damage if sufficiently concentrated.

  Barry Commoner

  Play, Ddt, Environmental

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• Not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Order, Confusion, Heaven

  "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Preface Letter to Pope Paul III)". Book by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543.

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• Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

  Carl Sagan

  Perspective, Vision, Cosmos

  "Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

  Tom Chatfield

  Book, Mean, Cutting

  "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.

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• I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Rowan Atkinson JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Prayer changes things. It moves in the atmosphere. The bible says whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth, you loose in heaven. And I loose it. I speak into existence everything I want. And I bind it. And I cast out everything that is not right. So absolutely. My faith is all that I had, all I have and all I will have to hold on to.

  Patrice Lovely

  Prayer, Moving, Heaven

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• My song are more about the practical message of not wearing ourselves out just to get rich and looking at what life is really about and enjoying each and every day as opposed to the opposite of that. About living your life in a freer sense and not being bound by what people think of you and looking forward to seeing the grander scheme of who God is, what He's done and what He's doing and what He'd going to do.

  Peter Furler

  Song, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• [Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.

  Peter Steinhart

  Believe, Office, Nurse

  Peter Steinhart (2011). “The Company of Wolves”, p.142, Vintage

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• She was ... the arch personification of the power of Space, Time, and Matter, within whose bound all beings arise and die: the substance of their bodies, configurator of their lives and thoughts, and receiver of their dead. And everything having form or name-including God personified as good or evil, merciful or wrathful-was her child, within her womb.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Names, Space

  Joseph Campbell (1991). “The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology”, Penguin Group USA

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Knights, Together, Events

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• The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Moving, Definitions

  Source: daggy.name

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• Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Literature, Definitions, Argument

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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• We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children.

  Richard L. Evans

  Peace, Children, Father

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• God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Vision

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Evil, Community, Soul

  William Ellery Channing (1925). “The Liberal Gospel: As Set Forth in the Writings of William Ellery Channing”

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• There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

  Don Marquis

  Running, Country, Tyrants

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

  Jim Morrison

  Reality, Curiosity, Curious

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• To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Order

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.189

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• For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Law

  John Locke (1751). “Works”, p.207

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• Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

  Jim Morrison

  Reality, Testing

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

  Michael Horton

  Focus, Changed, Testimony

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• The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

  Isaiah

  Years, Liberty, Anointing

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• Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

  John Newton

  Exercise, People, Principles

  John Newton (1830). “Forty-one Letters on Religious Subjects, Originally Published Under the Signatures of Omicron and Vigil”, p.145

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