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• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Light, Desire

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• We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Powerful, Heart, Ties

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1977). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Historical, Environmental, Individual Talent

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• The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Iron, Water, Moss

  Samuel Woodworth (1861). “The poetical works of Samuel Woodworth”, p.31

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• The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Destiny, White

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Remains

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• Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

  Alan Moore

  Children, Dark, Sky

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• I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.

  Sven Birkerts

  Believe, Book, Technology

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Book, Mathematical Logic

  "Recollections of Wittgenstein". Book by Rush Rhees, 1984.

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• ...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the edges of the pulpit as they depart from it. Members of the congregation carry Bibles to church services; the paster announces a long passage text for his sermon and waits for people to find it, then reads only the first verse of it before he takes off. The Book has become a talisman.

  Harold Bloom

  Book, Past, Church Service

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• Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

  Patrick Henry

  Lying, Mean, Hands

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Location pertains to feelings - feelings are bound up in place.

  Eudora Welty

  Feelings, Location

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• I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.

  John Guare

  Names, Venice, People

  "Six Degrees of Separation". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1993.

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• The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

  Brian Stableford

  Technology, Opportunity, Discovery

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• Indifference looks like detachment, but it is not; indifference is simply no interest. Detachment is not absence of interest - detachment is absolute interest, tremendous interest, but still with the capacity of non-clinging. Enjoy the moment while it is there and when the moment starts disappearing, as everything is bound to disappear, let it go. That is detachment.

  Rajneesh

  Let It Go, Looks, Indifference

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

  Robert Kagan

  Land, Wings, Caterpillars

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• Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.

  Torquil Campbell

  Goodbye, Art, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Philadelphia

  Source: www.gq.com

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• How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Children, Citizens

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• There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Finals, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Latter-day Pamphlets”, p.4, London : Chapman and Hall

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• Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Men, Tree, Secret

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• When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

  Adi Da

  Faces, Would Be, Break Out

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• No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

  James D. Watson

  Data, Facts, Models

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• [God] wants to teach men and women how to walk together in union and be great-to teach this people how to be bound to him and to those that he sets over them, and to teach his Saints how to reign in the house of Israel as his servants.

  Erastus Snow

  Men, Israel, People

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• Businesses and other human endeavors are also systems. They, too, are bound by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions, which often take years to fully play out their effects on each other. Since we are part of that lacework ourselves, it's doubly hard to see the whole pattern of change. Instead we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system, and wonder why our deepest problems never seem to get resolved.

  Peter Senge

  Years, Play, Focus

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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