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Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.

~Edward Mckendree Bounds

Topics: Broad Confined Dies Hallmark Must Needs Others Personal Plead Prayer Reason Scope Self Selfishness Sphere True

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I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

~Ellar Coltrane

Topics: Against Anything Children Confined Feel Growing Growing Up Ingrained Like Many Point Rebel Repressed Some Up You I Feel I Feel Like

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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Become Confined Directions Either Event Eventually Extinction Future Going Humanity Planet Remain Two

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Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

~Eudora Welty

Topics: Any Being Confined Entire Frame Greater Human Human Being Never Scene Single Situation Than Who Will

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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Age Complications Confined Died Disease Farm Had Her Lived Mother Primarily She Years

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In the past, war was confined for the most part to men in uniform, but with increased mechanization of armies and the introduction of air forces, there is an increased dependence on the home country, and eight to ten people working at home are now required to keep one man in the fighting line.

~Frederick Banting

Topics: Air Armies Confined Country Dependence Eight Fighting Forces Home In The Past Increased Introduction Keep Line Man Men Most Now Part Past People Required Ten Uniform War Working

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Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Confined Constantly Dead Despair Doubts Him His Made Naked Own Reading Talents Writing

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And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

~George Stigler

Topics: Confined Discussions Exchange Fellow Forever Freely Laureate Numbers Professional Science Scientists Small Those Would

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