"What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties."
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"As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again."
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"I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past"
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"Never take advice from someone wearing a tie."
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"I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them."
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"I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background."
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"At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold."
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"Masonry superadds to our other obligations the strongest ties of connection between it and the cultivation of virtue, and furnishes the most powerful incentives to goodness."
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"There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness."
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"Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united."
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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
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"My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision."
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"Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."
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"France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one, and the first choice of all not under those ties."
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"loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round"
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"He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?"
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"Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?"
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"I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them."
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"Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating."
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"My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'."
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