He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
– Jules Michelet
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- Sometimes God must confine us in order to free us. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
- You cannot be named. To define is to confine. – Sue Maisano
- The degree of your mindset will confine you – just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. – Hark Herald Sarmiento
- Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether. – Craig D Lounsbrough
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- Be careful whom you confine in. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping. – Tsunetomo Yamamoto
- It is only when you suffer that you truly understand. – Jules Verne
- I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! – Jules Verne
- Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent. – Meg Wolitzer
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- Do not read books to escape reality. Read them to understand the reality you live in. – Eric Freh
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- Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them. – TS Eliot
- No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. – Anton Chekhov
- The more you learn about other people, the more you understand yourself; and the more you understand yourself, the more you understand other people. – Father Brown
- I can’t understand God and I can’t understand myself, so there’s no chance in hell that I’m going to understand you! – Anthony T Hincks
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- His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. – John Steinbeck
- The more power one gives to his thought–the more completely he believes that his thought has power–the more power will it have. – Ernest Holmes
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