Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith."
Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls."
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"We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us."
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"As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge."
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"If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight."
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"The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon."
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"A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends."
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"When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life."
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"I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out."
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"And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings."
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"On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with."
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"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope."
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"If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't."
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"Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top."
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"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself."
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"Guilt is a rope that wears thin."
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"Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs."
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"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."
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"The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck."
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"Let us not throw the rope after the bucket."
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"The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting."
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"Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ."
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