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Letter "I" » imprisoned
«The reason there are so many imbeciles among imprisoned criminals is that an imbecile is so foolish even a detective can detect him»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Crime,
Foolishness
| Keywords:
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«Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.»
Author: Swami Nirmalananda
| About:
Society
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«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
Author: Octavio Paz
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«Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.»
«No nation hiding behind closed doors is free, for it is imprisoned by its own fear»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
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closed-door, closed, doors, hiding, imprisoned, imprisons
«Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Houses
| Keywords:
housed, imprisoned, unwieldy
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