#shackles

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. ↗

— James Madison

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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

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Giving a man a level of respect & permitting, without fuss, a lesser reciprocity is like shackling yourself & handing him the keys: He becomes the boss of you. ↗

— Wale Ayeni

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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ↗

— Franz Boas

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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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