“Stuffing people into boxes is for those who have issues about their own box.”

— Kelley Armstrong

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Canadian writer 1968

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 31

“Marriage is one of those things where people can have different opinions and it has to be decided at the ballot box and not through the courts. It's about who gets to decide not what should be decided.”

John J. Bursch (1972) American politician

Same-sex marriage case in court: Attorney John Bursch https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/23/sex-marriage-case-court-attorney-john-bursch/26277577/ (April 23, 2015)

“So she had a box. Lots of people have boxes. They keep things in them. It's a growing trend, I hear.”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace to Clary, pg. 449
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.”

Neil Kinnock (1942) British politician

On the Provisional IRA; speech in the House of Commons (23 October 1986), reported in Hansard, 6th series, vol. 102, col. 1287.

“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
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