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put in chains

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The world is full of people whom no one has put in chains but who bind themselves with frozen thoughts and fears. A man whose mind conforms to the conditioned responses of his daily life is a coward and a slave. **The Rules of Chaos (1969), p 84. Stephen Vizinczey

At Brahmanabad, after many people were killed, "all prisoners of or under the age of 30 years were put in chains... All the other people capable of bearing arms were beheaded and their followers and dependents were made prisoners.”. Muhammad bin Qasim

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