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29 quotesWithin yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Freedom
Sir Edwin Arnold
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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
Drugs
Ambrose Bierce
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
Punishment
William Blake
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Punishment
Jerry Brown
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Pain
William C. Bryant
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Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
Obesity
Cyril Connolly
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Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
Freedom
T. S. Eliot
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We are prisoners of ideas.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are the prisoners of ideas.
Conflict
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have never been contained except I made the prison
Self-sabotage
Mary Evans
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Ability
Henry Ford
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Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Secrets
Ibn Gabirol
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A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
Thoughts and Thinking
Edward F. Halifax
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Taxes and Taxation
Denis Healey
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education
Victor Hugo
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Hell
Ben Johnson
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Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Attitude
Frederick Langbridge
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Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Negotiation
Nelson Mandela
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The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.
World
Sir Walter Raleigh
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My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
Movies
Burt Reynolds
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Freedom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Imagination
Robert H. Schuller
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Make not your thoughts you prisons.
Thoughts and Thinking
William Shakespeare
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Prison
George Bernard Shaw
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Prison
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun