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  For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• No one chains a slave without chaining himself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Slave

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  You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Wise, Peace

  Gandhi, Mahatma “Inspiring Thoughts”, Rajpal & Sons

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• They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Light, Broken

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• It’s terrible to lie in chains,
  To rot in dungeon deep,
  But it’s still worse, when you are free
  To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

  Taras Shevchenko

  Lying, Sleep, Dungeons

  Taras Shevchenko (1964). “Selected works; poetry and prose”

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• One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Links, Causes, Infinite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Lectures from Colombo to Almora”, p.73, editionNEXT.com

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• The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Broken, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Freedom, Fool

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Spring, Valentine

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  It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Determination, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Order, Needs

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Happy, Hurt

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• Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Peace

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• We forge the chains we wear in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Forged

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

  Mark Twain

  Struggle, Training, Association

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.213, Univ of California Press

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• We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

  Bradley Whitford

  Graduation, Believe, Break

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• If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, Ties, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Oct 31, 2011

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• It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

  Franz Kafka

  Freedom, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

  Zeno of Citium

  Fate, Goes On, World

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• We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Teacher, Selfish, Live Life

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• Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiveness, Keys, Doors

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Strength, Ties, Links

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• We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Divine Guidance, Ties, Thrones

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

  Karl Marx

  Winning, World, Uniting

  "The Communist Manifesto". Book by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1848.

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• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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