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We need to have the walls, if they (the patients) can't see anything around them, it calms them down. – Zau Tu	Found on CNN 9 years ago
He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there. – George Mac Donald	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust. – Salvador Dalí	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls. – Epicurus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought... – Robert G. Ingersoll	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice. – Robert F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. – Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. – St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. – John Locke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. – Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple. – Robert Ingersoll, On Isadora Duncan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. – George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. – Jane Goodall	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. – Paul McCartney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian. – Paul McCartney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. – Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 1966	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . – Aristophanes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. – Richard Burton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid. – C. M. Cox	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in. – Ronald Reagan	added by acronimous 14 years ago
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We need to have the walls, if they (the patients) can't see anything around them, it calms them down.

– Zau Tu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there.

– George Mac Donald

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

– Jim Rohn

added by anonymous
10 years ago

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.

– Salvador Dalí

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.

– Epicurus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought...

– Robert G. Ingersoll

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice.

– Robert F. Kennedy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

– Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison