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The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions.

Dave Cullen
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Sorcha MacMurrough, The Matchless Miss
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When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )

Erik Pevernagie
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages

Elias Canetti
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We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

Russell D. Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
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My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

Jaeda DeWalt
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

Sir Francis Bacon
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It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all.

E.M. Forster, Howards End
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This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty.

Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
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As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

Ben Bova, Powersat
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