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«You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.»
Author: Sean O'Casey (Playwright) | About: Ideas | Keywords: barrack, bullets, cell, confine, neck, prison cell, riddle, riddled, riddles, riddling, rope, slaves, square
«To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.»
Author: Stephen Hawking (Physicist) | Keywords: confine, terrestrial
«My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott (Author) | About: Philosophy | Keywords: balloon, balloons, confine, definition, Down to Earth, haul, hauled, hauling, haul up, holding, hold down, philosopher, ropes
«Confine yourself to the present.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | Keywords: confine, confining, present
«In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: attended, confine, confining, inconvenience, inconvenienced, in writing, strictly
«I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: confine, confining, expressing, facts, opinions, themselves
«Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,The extravagant and erring spirit hiesTo his confine.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: confine, erring, extravagant
«O, sir! you are old;Nature in you stands on the very vergeOf her confine.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: confine, sir, verge, verges
«I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | About: Painting, Politics, War, Writing | Keywords: confine, confining, entirely, painting, Politicians
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