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Letter "T" » The Prisoner of
«In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
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denied, precisely, prison, prisoner, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of, wants, withheld, withholding, withholds
«An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artist, etc., etc, in style, My Style, prisoner, reputation, style, styled, The Prisoner of
«In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy»
Author: Ivan Illich
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addiction, addictions, consumer, Consumer Society, envy, inevitably, kinds, prisoners, slaves, society, The Prisoner of
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
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«Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.»
Author: Leo F. Buscaglia
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
amazement, essence, lose it, make love, mundane, passion, predictability, prisoner, surprise, The Prisoner of, withering, withers
«For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, / If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: / How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, / Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) / Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; / That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: / Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
apostles, Apostle of the Gentiles, Apostle Paul, dispensation, grace of God, partakers, prisoner, The Prisoner of, ward
«I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, / With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; / Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
beseech, beseeching, bond, forbearing, long-suffering, longsuffering, meekness, prisoner, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of, vocation, wherewith
«The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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clings, clung, committed, crime, over and over, prisoner, The One, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of
«The insane rootThat takes the reason prisoner.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
insane, prisoner, root, The Prisoner of
«A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
asks, fails, kill, prisoner, prisoner of war, The Prisoner of, tries, war
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