"Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of……" — Aristophanes

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go… — Neil Armstrong
• There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to… — Arthur Koestler
• I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I… — Margaret Mahy
• We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. — Russell Shorto
• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
• Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and… — Edward Abbey
• It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state… — Thomas Paine
• True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or… — Rajneesh
• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when… — Fisher Ames
• There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or… — Unknown Author
• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages,… — Dorothea Dix

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