"We imagine that we want to escape our……" — Anne Sullivan Macy
"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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33 Quotes by Anne Sullivan Macy
Anne Sullivan Macy has 33 quotes on this site.
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You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to…
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Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the…
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously…
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A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their…
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege…
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and…
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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a…
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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
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You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the…
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Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good…
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More Chains Quotes
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
— Annie Besant
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
— Jello Biafra
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
— Orlando Bloom
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
— Wade Boggs
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
— Jo Brand
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
— Wernher von Braun
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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