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• To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

  David R. Brower

  Technology, World, Flow

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• As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer who keeps an animal of comparable intelligence in this manner, however, is more likely to be rewarded with a tax concession or, in some countries, a direct government subsidy.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Dog, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspiration, Animal, Drawing

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.311, Vintage

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

  Will Arnett

  Fathers Day, Dad, Kids

  "'Parks and Recreation' star Amy Poehler and husband Will Arnett expecting second child" by Christina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

  Gerry Cheevers

  Zoos, Hockey, Thinking

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• Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Wedding, Bird

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• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Truth, Reality, Shapes

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• I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

  Mike Tyson

  Bullying, Zoos, New York

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• I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

  John Bunyan

  Depression, Men, Iron

  James Thomas, John Bunyan (2009). “Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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• May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

  Libba Bray

  Queens, Nice, Believe

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Fear, Atheism, Complaining

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• Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Men, Should Have

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• Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Dirty, Cat

  "Hoarders : Stepping Out of Your TV Set Into Your Local Shelter" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2010.

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• On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Animal, Giving, Imagination

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Animal, Liberty, Inmates

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• Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

  Jacob Grimm

  Son, Bird, Castles

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage

  Abbi Glines

  Heart, Eye, Blue

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• Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Actors, Done, Action

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• A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

  Sylvia Plath

  Black, Parrots

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

  Tom Stoppard

  Animal, Thinking, Human Nature

  Tom Stoppard (2012). “Rock 'n' Roll”, p.112, Faber & Faber

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• You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

  Patricia Briggs

  Freedom, Eagles, Long

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.86, Penguin

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• He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.

  Angie Sage

  Dragons, Smell, Needs

  Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black

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• Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

  Trent Jamieson

  Zero, Fighting, Dark

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