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«It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.»
Author: Donal Henahan
| Keywords:
argued, desirable, For Better or Worse, Gutenberg, musicians, printed, prisoners, scores
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, consumer, Consumer Society, envy, inevitably, kinds, prisoners, slaves, society, The Prisoner of
«Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.»
«Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape»
Author: Loren Eiseley
| About:
Escapism
| Keywords:
drawing, Fro, prisoners, to and fro, usual, walk-to
«It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.»
Author: Corazon Aquino
| About:
Democracy,
Freedom,
Power
| Keywords:
cells, machinery, Political freedom, political prisoner, prisoners
«Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.»
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.»
«Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: / Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever: / Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: / The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: / The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.»
«I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.»
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