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«If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.»
«Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.»
Author: V. S. Naipaul
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Limits,
Vision
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carve, carves, confined, fewer, limit, narrowness, niche, niches, possibilities
«Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason /you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.»
«No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.»
Author: Joan Rivers
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confined, dedicated, disciplined, drives, focused, gas, Niagara, steam, steaming, The Tunnel, tunneled
«In pious times 'ere priest craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin: When man, on many, multiply'd his kind Ere one to one was, cursedly, confined; When Nature prompted, and no law deny'd Promiscuous use of concubine and bride»
«Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Laughter
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confined, human species, one species, privileges, species
«Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.»
Author: Truman Capote
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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confined, contemporary, demons, enraptured, mesmerize, mesmerized, navels, subjective, the French, toes
«Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective»
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
«I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confined to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but, if persecuted, it will be vindication of his rights to buy, and to read what he pleases»
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