"It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression."
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"Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul."
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"I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous."
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"He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie."
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"To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"
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"Americas largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner."
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"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."
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"Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm."
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"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie."
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"..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune."
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"He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness."
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"Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society."
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"That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer."
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"The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking."
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"When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever."
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"No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles]."
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"In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden."
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"Social ties are the cheapest medicine we have."
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"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story... To make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all."
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"Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small."
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