#confine

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.... ↗

— Andre Agassi

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God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. ↗

— Martha Beck

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

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If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. ↗

— Joe Biden

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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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