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When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars. Mother Angelica

Pride Walls Hatred Build Prisoner Ourselves More Around Surely Concrete Begin Imprisoned Iron Than Any Behind Prejudice Bars

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. David Icke

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We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. Anna Freud

Life Ocean Like Sailor His Imprisoned Infinite Tiny Boat Realm

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. J. Michael Straczynski

Invader Force Arms Dictator Imprisoned Forever Hold Population

It was an egregious violation of the American Constitution. We were innocent American citizens, and we were imprisoned simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. It shows us just how fragile our Constitution is. George Takei

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I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. Joely Fisher

Myself Food Believe Imprisoned Any Diet Being Depriving

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government. Peter Benenson

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Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands or sons were imprisoned by the army with no hope of release - made me think about how I would feel if someone took my brothers from me. Sabaa Tahir

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Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. Wynonna Judd

Darkness Living Something Most Until Imprisoned Us Flips Switch

Together, the western elites and Gaddafi helped to lead us into a simplistic two-dimensional vision of the world - full of exaggerations and falsehoods. A fake bubble of certainty that has imprisoned us in the West - and is now preventing us from understanding what is really going on in the world outside. Adam Curtis

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One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others. Andrew Solomon

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I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model. Arundhati Roy

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For many Americans, 'Vietnam' is a word associated with war and the extraordinarily complex history between our countries. But since normalization began, the U.S. and Vietnam have steadily built bonds of partnership, demonstrating that we can recognize history without being imprisoned by it. Ben Rhodes

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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. Cyril Connolly

Man Every Wildly Out Imprisoned Thin Fat Fat Man

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. Emma Goldman

Triumph Puritanism Nevertheless Although Greatest Imprisoned Chained

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes. George Will

Today Property Crimes More Imprisoned Than American

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable. Glenn Greenwald

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