"If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage."
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"Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages."
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"You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter."
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"While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away."
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"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while."
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"Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage."
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"... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild."
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"People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage."
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"A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that."
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"You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame"
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"Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage."
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"Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes."
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"Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose."
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"The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage."
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"A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave."
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"If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks."
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"Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?"
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"I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought."
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"The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow."
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"The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul."
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