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«It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Life, Trust | Keywords: cell, go through, imprisoned
«No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.»
«A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.»
«In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.»
«Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.»
Author: Norman Cousins (Editor, Essayist) | Keywords: imprisoned
«Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.»
«And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: / And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: beat in, imprisoned, martyr, shed, slew, synagogue
«Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Men | Keywords: Fat Man, imprisoned, let out, signaling, wildly
«Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.»
«Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.»

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