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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves."

Imagination Expression Ties
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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must."

Responsibility Ties Who We Are
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Harold Prince Theatrical Producer and Director
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"I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different."

People Night Ties
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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us."

Nature Faults Ties
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"Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him. "Our diplomatic ties are severed." Unsever them," he growled, "or the Country of Raphael will be forced to declare your republic a protectorate." Dictator," I muttered. For life," he agreed."

Country Joy Ties
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

Men Time Ties
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."

Heart Sadness Ties
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury."

Lasts Sweet Ties
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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
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"You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing."

Hands Add Ties
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"This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you."

Fall Ties Lips
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John Lewis Politician
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"It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians."

Interesting Ties Campaigns
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"One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges."

People Emotional Ties
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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
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"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other."

Two Self Ties
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