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• I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Intoxication

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• Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

  Esther Williams

  Marriage, Shelter, Pay

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• I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

  Kelly Lynch

  Thinking, People

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• The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Thinking, Law

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

  Emma Goldman

  Mind, Anarchy, Dominion

  'Anarchism and Other Essays' (1910) p. 68

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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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• To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Mind, Privilege

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.197

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• The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we have under our Constitution, you will know that they are putting shackles on your liberty, and that tyranny is creeping upon you, ...no matter what the reason and excuse therefore may be.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Government, Liberty, Principles

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• The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

  Christopher Paolini

  Beach, Nature, Hate

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Life, Lucky, Care

  Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Horla and Other Stories”, p.38, Wildside Press LLC

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• I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

  Audre Lorde

  Feminist, Fearless, Different

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.132, Crossing Press

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• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

  Carl Sagan

  Reading, Writing, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

  James Madison

  Unjust, Commerce

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.21, University of Virginia Press

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• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Stronger, Quests, Slavery

  "Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

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• The genius of Christian spirituality is to integrate [the] spirit of possession with the spirit of dispossession. The spirit of dispossession implies that all the good and delightful things of this world are never allowed to own, possess, or shackle me. Dispossession implies that I am always free, my own person, liberated from the tyranny that possession can easily exercise over us.

  John Powell

  Christian, Exercise, Genius

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

  Franz Boas

  Broken Heart, Parent, Dogma

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Southern, Might, Firsts

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868”, p.59, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection, and restraint than to be in shackles.

  Pietro Belluschi

  Determination, Introspection, Restraint

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• Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Self, Want, Christ

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• A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Magic, Cosmos

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

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• The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Done, Belief, Break

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Muhammad was a jackass. People who believe in him are stupid. Let us call a spade as spade. These people must be laughed at. They, and their screwball prophet have to be ridiculed not respected. Let them cringe, let them wince, let them agonize. We must demolish this fetish and break the shackles of these wretched people. They must be set free and the only way to do that is to demolish their fetish.

  Ali Sina

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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• They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Power, Government, Hands

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.16, Best Books on

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• People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast that puts us in shackles of our own creation. They are dependent on us. We think of revolutions as gunfire in the streets. But a soft and creeping tyranny can be beaten with a soft and creeping revolution. Think about it. Think about all the ways the totalitarian state is dependent on your personal actions. Think about what you do every day to help feed this beast and then stop doing that!

  Bill Whittle

  Thinking, People, Giants

  YouTube Chanel "PJ Media "/ "Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Dependence Day", www.youtube.com. July 3, 2013.

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