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• Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Air, Doors

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Haunted Mesa”, p.258, Bantam

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• Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.

  Brian Jacques

  Regret, Silly, Cat

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• The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Those communities that were locked out of the last century's pollution-based economy must be locked into the new, clean and renewable economy. Our youth need green-collar jobs, not jails.

  Van Jones

  Strong, Jobs, Jail

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• Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of herself and himself as locked in a box called a 'body,' arms and legs, fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they've forgotten how to communicate, eyes because they've forgotten how to see. Odd little planet. Wish you were here. Home soon.

  Richard Bach

  Moving, Rain, Home

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• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  Sallust

  Ambition, Men, Tongue

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Cells, Long

  Graham Swift (2012). “Making an Elephant: Writing from Within”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• These days, teachers have it rough. Kids can be hyperactive, disobedient, and obnoxious. It must feel like being locked in a room of drunk midgets.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

  Josephine Baker

  Love, Heart, Long

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• The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt.

  Debbie Ford

  Hurt, Heart, Past

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• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mirrors, Hair, Trying

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Library

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Faithful

  Interview with Antonio Spadaro, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2013.

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• I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Here And There, Different

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• The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. 'The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.' The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's Word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written word powerful. Otherwise it would lie locked in slumber within the covers of a book.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Powerful, Lying

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• Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Library, Looks

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Door”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

  Aaron Swartz

  Book, Needs, Heritage

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

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• Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Emotional, Should Have

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.290, Profile Books

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• The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

  Tom Stoppard

  Taken, Ideas, People

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• It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

  Robert E. Lee

  Walking Away, Doors, Feelings

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• Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

  Dave McKean

  Bird, Captivity, Never Quit

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• To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

  Sean Astin

  Journey, Two, People

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• Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

  Wesley Snipes

  Perspective, People, Bars

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up and all the rest of it, but to be honest I wish it was locked up. The idea that it's roaming in a jungle... get it locked up.

  Karl Pilkington

  Animal, Ideas, Feet

  "3 Minute Wonder (Some Thoughts by Karl Pilkington: Nature)". TV Series, August 17, 2006.

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• My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.

  Joel Madden

  Christian, Mom, Brother

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• Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Giving Up, Doors, Suffering

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