"Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?"
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"The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts."
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"I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult."
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"Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains."
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"Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains."
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"Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains."
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"In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible."
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"Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain."
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"It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain."
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"I sang in my chains like the sea"
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"I wear the chains I forged in life."
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"I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain."
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"Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief."
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"Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power."
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"I happen to be a chain breather."
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"Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates."
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"Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock..."
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"No one chains a slave without chaining himself."
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"His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die."
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"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."
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