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• Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Fit, Trenches

  Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Lying, Men

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• The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Children, Inheritance, Action

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• I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Ordinary

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• Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds.

  George P. Shultz

  Law, Enforcement, Delay

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• When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

  Janet Flanner

  War, Views, Looks

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

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• You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Freedom, Feels, Ifs

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• Every invalid is a prisoner.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Giving, Political, Would Be

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• We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  God, Humble, House

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• Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

  David Chase

  People, Cameras, Television

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which the speaker could have better done. Nay, almost it must have taken the place of a deed by some urgent necessity, even by some misfortune, so that the truest writer will be some captive knight, after all. And perhaps the fates had such a design, when, having stored Raleigh so richly with the substance of life and experience, they made him a fast prisoner, and compelled him to make his words his deeds, and transfer to his expression the emphasis and sincerity of his action.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Cousin, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If I'm tapping anything, it's the frustration of people who have something to say at work or home or in some social setting and just can't do it. I do it for them. I don't take prisoners.

  Neal Boortz

  Home, Frustration, People

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• In the marketing society, we seek fulfillment but settle for abundance. Prisoners of plenty, we have the freedom to consume instead of our freedom to find our place in the world.

  Clive Hamilton

  Marketing, World, Abundance

  Clive Hamilton (2004). “Growth Fetish”

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• How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  God, Religious, Real

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• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  Carlos Santana

  Past, Thinking, People

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• My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Danger, Inches

  Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.101, Grove Press

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• The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Escaping, Way, Prison

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• You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

  Tad Williams

  Surrender

  Tad Williams (2007). “Shadowplay: Shadowmarch”, p.657, Penguin

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• At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.

  Helen McCloy

  Past, Choices, Decision

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• Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Men, Resolution

  Statement from prison, 10 Feb. 1985

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• In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

  Roberto Unger

  Fire, Humanity, Democracy

  "The ideas interview: Roberto Unger". Interview with John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2006.

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• [To a group of women prisoners:] You're luckier than I am. You're wanted and I'm not.

  Nancy Astor

  Groups, Wanted

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• If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

  King James I

  Kings, Men, Wish

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• Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

  Camille Paglia

  Education

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.8, Vintage

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