"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."
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"The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains."
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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."
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"And the meek shall inherit the earth."
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"Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool."
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"I'm gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best."
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"Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one."
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"Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language."
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"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line."
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"That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head."
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"When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble."
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"Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor."
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"It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda."
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"That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?"
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"I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems."
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"As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making."
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"Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings."
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"A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community."
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