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# The mind is the first level of the control prison,...
> The mind is the first level of the control prison, where your own thoughts are like a jailer, guard or a violent captor, which through time you have come to know and protect in a perverse paradox of self-imposed Stockholm syndrome.
**Source:** [[books/Voice of Reason Book (2009-2012)|Voice of Reason]]
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