"Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots."
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"The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze."
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"He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen."
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"Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding."
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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."
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"Everybody knew that you should never provoke a rattlesnake, much less tie it into a bow. But that didn't stop Judd. What did stop him was the rattlesnake."
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"I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak."
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"Macy's has severed ties with Donald Trump and no longer will carry his men's wear collection. From now on, men who want to look like Donald Trump will have to hunt and kill their own hair piece."
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"The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it."
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"Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced."
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"Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties."
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"The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder."
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"A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet."
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"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
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"The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate."
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"The main thing in a cup tie is to get through."
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"It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer."
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"The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity."
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"For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!"
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"Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
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