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• To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

  Jared Diamond

  Events, Extinction, Normal

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• If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Enough Time, Enough, Ifs

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• We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.

  David Hockney

  Memories, People, Different

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

  Mitra Farahani

  Issues, People, Structure

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both

  Winston Churchill

  Responsibility, Generations, Looks

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• Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Greed, Wealth

  Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

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• Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Philosophy, Real

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Absurd, Conscious

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

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• The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Self, Roles, Use

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• All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

  Carrie Fisher

  Teenage, Boys, Night

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• If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Constrain, Ifs

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• Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Government, Progress, Matter

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• A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Men, Inferiority

  "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.

  Orson Welles

  Country, Fake, Special

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• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

  Ben Lerner

  Thinking, Contemporary Fiction, Literature

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• The Universe is a unity, an interacting and genetically-related community of beings bound together in an inseparable relationship in space and time... The human is that being in whom the Universe activates, reflects upon, and celebrates itself in conscious self-awareness.

  Thomas Berry

  Self, Space, Community

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• The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

  John Pawson

  Home, Thinking, Space

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• When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).

  Richard Branson

  Challenges, Encounters, Duh

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• Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?

  Franklin Graham

  People, Feel Good, May

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• One is bound to one's wife, but has a bond to one's mistress.

  Peter Prange

  Wife, Mistress

  Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

  Marlene Zuk

  Sex, Jobs, Mean

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• If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.

  Dalai Lama

  Self Esteem, Others Opinions, Identity

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• Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Maturity, Obedience

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• Peace is our goal, but peace from strength, an enduring peace that will bring regional cooperation. What we have emphasized and agreed is that we are strategic partners. We are bound by common interests and will act together to ensure both the safety of United States and the safety of Afghanistan. That is the important consideration. Numbers are a means; they are not an end in themselves.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Strength, Peace, Mean

  "Obama halts Afghanistan troop withdrawal" by Betsy Klein, Laura Koran and Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2015.

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