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"We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education."

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Jonathan Swift Satirist, Writer
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"Whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? Their utmost malice cannot make Your head, or tooth, or finger ache; Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place."

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"Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals."

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