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captive
«The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.»
Author: Mark Caine
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Success
| Keywords:
captive, environment, first step, refuse, The Captive
«The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live. There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable. For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in a glory is one mode. To beat a retreat to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
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beat a retreat, captive, gulf, Gulf of, honorable, mode, modes, plane, retreat, worthily
«The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.»
Author: Ralph Nader
(Activist, Lawyer)
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captive, corporate, intelligentsia, Liberal Party, The Liberal Party
«The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.»
«Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.»
«Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been? / Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.»
«Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.»
«They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, / And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.»
«The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, / Micah his son, Reaia his son, Baal his son, / Beerah his son, whom Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.»
«The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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analytic, attaches, captive, dispute, dominates, drag, hinder, Inside the, opponents, overvaluation, patients, psychotherapist, socially, technique, threefold, untamed, wage