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• A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Needs, Alive, Wilderness

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• I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Bits

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

  Hilary Mantel

  Kings, Thinking, Ears

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• I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Flower, Thinking, Littles

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.85, eKitap Projesi

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• Patience is passion tamed.

  Lyman Abbott

  Positive, Inspiring, Patience

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Time, One Day, Machines

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “In the Heart of the Country: A Novel”, p.7, Penguin

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• Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

  Tony Benn

  Kings, Tyrants, Politics

  Tony Benn, Joan Bodington (1974). “Speeches”

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• Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

  Ella Maillart

  Travel, Adventure, Desire

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• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Cutting, Tongue

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• There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

  Larry Niven

  Men, Animal, Space

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.232, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.998, Penguin

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• Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, Heart, Men

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.697, Macmillan

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• Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Men, Littles

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

  Deb Caletti

  Beautiful, Wall, Real

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

  Os Guinness

  Purpose, Asceticism, Emotion

  Os Guinness (1976). “In Two Minds: The Dilemma of Doubt & how to Resolve it”, IVP Books

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• Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Heart, Fighting, Sheep

  Elizabeth Moon (1988). “Sheepfarmer's Daughter”, p.708, Baen Books

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• Can't all beasts be tamed?

  Robin McKinley

  Beast

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• So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Wheat Fields, Color, Foxes

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• A thing named is a thing tamed.

  Joanne Harris

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• It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.

  Neal Shusterman

  Boys, Men, Sharks

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  World, Way, Foxes

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• Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do not offer the dubious exhilaration of grand philosophical theory, in which messy reality is tamed and caged, but the thrill of seeing pretension punctured by a kind of high-voltage common sense (backed up by impressive erudition). . . . There is no one in philosophy quite like him.

  Colin McGinn

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Writing

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• These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Risk, Say Anything

  "Cable Refuses to Back Knighthood for Tory Hedge Fund Millionaire Who Made Money From Fall of Northern Rock". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 31, 2011.

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• Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

  George Santayana

  Wise, Taken, Passion

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