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Wedlock is a padlock. -- John Ray
Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. -- Rumi
You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea. -- Myles Horton
Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it. -- Jerry A. Coyne
No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind. -- Alexander Pope
The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit! -- Jennifer Rardin
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. -- Noel Fisher
Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks. -- George Burns
I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do. -- Dwayne Johnson
One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb. -- Edward Thomson
This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ... -- Jamaica Kincaid
Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU. -- Celso Amorim

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