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Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Autonomy is the privilege to select our own shackles.
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It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Our psyche is the ultimate determinant of our liberty or captivity.
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
We construct the shackles that bind us in life.
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We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.
Rigoberta Menchu
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The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
Charles Willson Peale
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Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
Paul Dirac
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No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.
Bob Marley
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I'm a free person; I feel terribly free. They could put me in chains and I still would be free because my thoughts would be mine - and that's all I want to have.
Arthur Rubinstein
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I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.
Ron White
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I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
Jim Harrison
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Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.
Tupac Shakur
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Golf is like a chain. You always have to work on the weakest links.
George Archer
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He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains.
Pablo Neruda
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All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.
Hafez
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Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.
Jonas Armstrong
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
Samuel Beckett
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When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
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I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.
Judy Tenuta
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Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
Mike Johanns
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Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.
Joe Arpaio
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Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --
Giacomo Leopardi
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free.
Benjamin Franklin
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The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.
David J. Schwartz
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By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.
Andy Andrews
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We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.
Colin Beavan
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A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.
Karl Marx
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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
Carol J. Adams
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
Sophie Swetchine
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Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
Wangechi Mutu
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I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
John Bunyan
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
Let go. And you'll know Freedom.
Yasmin Mogahed
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo
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I don't rock chains our ancestors did it for us
Phonte
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Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
Jeff McNeely
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I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.
Tanith Lee
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What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
Heather Mills
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Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.
Nadia Boulanger
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There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
Ellen G. White
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin
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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
Franz Kafka
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Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.
Bruce Cockburn
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The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Joel Salatin
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His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Bruno Bauer