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There was one thing which I thought was tremendous fun, namely finding as many angles as possible within the confines of a single room.

- Claude Chabrol

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can`t take a character anywhere they don`t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

- Richard Price

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

- Italo Calvino

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

- A.J. Ellison

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

- Alicia Hollowell

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother`s home.

- Andrea Peiro

(To be sure, Motherboard never left the confines of the SOE stables after Simpson couched the project, citing economic reasons. Moreover,) the end product was a much-larger-scale endeavor, ... It had nothing to do with editorial content.

- Andrew Velasquez

The cars passed postrace inspection, ... The shock absorbers themselves, after being tested and disassembled and everything, all of the parts and pieces were well within the confines of the rule book. However, the shock build -- the assembly of the parts and what the shock it intended to do -- it`s not within the spirit and the intent of what our shock absorber rules surround.

- Art Leo
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