#hold

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told. ↗

— Lynndie England

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