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It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

~Fritz Sauckel

Topics: Australia Captured French German Happened High Made Prisoner Sailing Seas Ship Vessel Way

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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

~Galina Vishnevskaya

Topics: Brilliant Captured Cast Friendship Life Light My Soul Once Over Qualities Soul Spiritual Time Whole Whose

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I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

~Gary Lineker

Topics: About Asking Astonishing Captured Had Hundreds Imagination Journalists Me Over Requests Speak Which World

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Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Cannot Captured Commitment Contained Creativity Heart Inspiration

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When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghan Afghanistan After Captured Civil Civil War Earlier Fit Founding Imagined Immediately Instituted Islam Laws Lives More Most Offered Past Present Returned Sign Taliban Than Time Visible Vision War Which Women Years

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I had a great season and truly enjoyed competing around the world - from Monaco, where I managed to establish a world record, to Beijing, where I finally captured my first world outdoor title.

~Genzebe Dibaba

Topics: Around Beijing Captured Competing Enjoyed Establish Finally First First World Great Had Monaco Outdoor Record Season Title Truly Where World World Record

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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

~George Papandreou

Topics: Around Been Big Bring Call Captured Concept Difficult Dirty Game Interests Need Often Politics States Them Think Very World I Think

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

~George Sand

Topics: Accepted Adore Believed Blush Captured Deliberately Door Everything False Frantic Heart How Joy Once Reason Regret Shame Shown Sort Struggle Suffering Without

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