"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere……" — Thomas Carlyle

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• The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,… — John Berger
• Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label. — Jo Brand
• Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. — Jean de la Bruyere
• The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. — Italo Calvino
• Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
• This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds,… — Chuck Hagel
• I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles… — Lenny Bruce
• Every spirit makes its house, but as after wards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. — Elbert Hubbard
• Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had… — John Joseph Griffin
• The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on… — Michel Foucault
• The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though… — Paul Hasluck
• Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night,… — William Shakespeare

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