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• Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.

  Clay Guida

  Fighting, Loss, Ufc

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside and live and go and socialize and exist among those who suffer daily from the relationship that they have to poverty, Black men and women who are incarcerated. Actually, all people who are incarcerated, not just Black.

  Harry Belafonte

  Men, People, Black

  "Actor-activist Harry Belafonte, Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 30, 2011.

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• If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

  Karl Popper

  Giving Up, Fighting, May

  Karl Popper (2012). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.38, Routledge

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• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Age

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II, Book Two, Chapter XX, 1840.

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• O good Jesu Thou has bound my heart in the thought of Thy Name, and now I can not but sing it; therefore have mercy upon me, making perfect that Thou hast ordained.

  Richard Rolle

  Heart, Names, Perfect

  Richard Rolle (of Hampole) (1920). “The Fire of Love”

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• No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Play, Luck

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Unpredictable, Interaction

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• In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Opportunity, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.502, Princeton University Press

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• ONLY in the release of the seen do you lay hold on the unseen, My little one. Heaven waits for those who are no longer bound to earth. The degree to which bondages are exchanged for liberties while still in the flesh is in proportion to the extent to which eternal values are held in higher esteem that worldly success and possessions. If a man loves Me, he will hold his soul more precious than his body and will pursue holiness at the expense of wealth; for to follow after that which perishes is to forfeit the prize of the high calling in Christ.

  Frances J Roberts

  Men, Heaven, Waiting

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• Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Emotional, Games, Feel Good

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• A scientist's life, the author says, is indeed conflictual, formed by battles, defeats, and victories: but the adversary is always and only the unknown, the problem to be solved, the mystery to be clarified. It is never a matter of civil war; even though of different opinions, or of different political leanings, scientists dispute each other, they compete, but they do not battle: they are bound together by a strong alliance, by the common faith "in the validity of Maxwell's or Boltzmann's equations," and by the common acceptance of Darwinism and the molecular structure of DNA.

  Primo Levi

  Strong, War, Acceptance

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• Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

  Rajneesh

  May, Awakening, Inference

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• The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in a Disney cartoon; rather, they changed. The coming of Christ and Christians actually freed them. They were no longer bound to people's expectations but could now become anything that they could imagine themselves to be. They are still here, walking among us. We just don't recognize them anymore.

  Charles de Lint

  Christian, Memories, Home

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Character, Personality

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• It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

  Philip Larkin

  Writing, Trying, Good Poetry

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

  Jim Crace

  Writing, Careers, Bitterness

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• A factory can be closed down, its chimneys smokeless, waiting for the worker to come back to his job, and all will be peaceful. But the moment workers are imported, and the striker sees his own place usurped, there is bound to be trouble.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Jobs, Waiting, Peaceful

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Loneliness, Imagination, Scary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'

  Kelvin Fletcher

  Thinking, Filled Out, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Obliged, Exceed

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.255

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• Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

  Herbert Hoover

  Blessing, Political, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they were not bound by apathy, by ignorance, by fear. It is the job of the peacemakers to inspire them from their apathy, to dispel their ignorance with truth, to allay their fear with faith that God's laws work - and work for good.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Jobs, Ignorance, Heart

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.99, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

  David Shields

  Teaching, Editing, Miracle

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto”, p.134, Penguin UK

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