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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.


Eldridge Cleaver

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J.R.R. TOLKIEN People fear that if he cannot free himself from the Aristide base, he might become a prisoner of the...
CLAUDE MOISE Comfort...was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.
ASHIM SHANKER You are as free as a prisoner in an open air prison
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO He wants to hear what everyone thinks and wants and he wants to do what is best for everyone of all ...
JAMES HAYES I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of w...
JACK HENRY ABBOTT What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.
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J.K. ROWLING As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - ...
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DANIEL TAYLOR Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Too much agreement kills the chat.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Too much agreement kills a chat.
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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!
UNKNOWN Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all
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KELLY JONES The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dang...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It should be fun performing with the Roger Humphries Big Band. Some of the toughest people in the mu...
GERALD WILSON “There are multitudes walking freely about who are locked up in the prison of pride.”
FRANCIS MAC DONALD القاعدة الذهبية في السجن إن حدث وانتهى بك الأمر خلف قضب...
JEFFREY ARCHER THE CURSE

May they never
Return home at night...

May you have no part of ...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Prison officials have been more concerned about sparing the sensitivities of executioners and witnes...
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JAMES C. DOBSON No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happe...
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NELSON MANDELA Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
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C.S. LEWIS If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precis...
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EMILY BEEBE The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habi...
J. PAUL GETTY It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau...
HELEN KELLER Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everythi...
RAF SIMONS This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.
BRYAN SINGER He does not want to be here. He wants to head back as prison as soon as possible.
GREG DENUE He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...
FERNANDO PESSOA And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; a...
BIBLE As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand...
JACKSON BROWNE God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
THALES He denied the ball from me. He did a great job of covering me in the second half.
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SIGMUND FREUD The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
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MICHAEL JACKSON I ask him to step back from what he wants to do, he wants to shoot, and deliver the ball. He did tha...
GERVAIS BARGER It wasn't because of the institute, but because God's Word became alive in his heart again. When tha...
DON BLACK Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?
PIETRO ARETINO We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in veti...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
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MARCUS TRUFANT He lets people (in the prison) know what he is called.
LARRY HACKETT That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women a...
VLADIMIR BARTOL It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by...
LAINI TAYLOR I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a v...
WILLEM DAFOE The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.
E. LEO FOSTER We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of...
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