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Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… — George Eliot
Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative. — Paul McDonald
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and… — Joseph de Maistre
The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and… — Jacob Bronowski
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that… — Yo-Yo Ma
The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to… — Frederick Lenz
I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people… — Criss Jami
I have a horror of being in confined spaces. — Hayley Mills
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic. — Richard Hofstadter
An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have… — Paul Davies
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human… — William Greider
The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see… — Mata Amritanandamayi
But it is necessary to insist more strongly than usual that what I am putting before you is a model-the Bohr model atom-because later I… — Arthur Eddington
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and… — Kate Millett
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the… — Terry Eagleton
My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to… — Diane Abbott
Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to… — John F. Kennedy
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer… — Amy Hempel
I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many… — Ryan Kwanten
Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective — Bertrand Russell
Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not… — Ansel Adams
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is… — E. M. Forster
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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