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"A dog will recognize his master in whatever way he dresses. The master may dress in robes, suit and tie, or stand naked, but the dog will always recognize his master. If we cannot recognize God, our beloved master, when he comes in a different dress from another religion, then we are less than that dog."
"The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men."
"It is a tie between men to have read the same book."
"It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere."
"I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything."
"... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh."
"By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties."
"I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie."
"If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up."
"Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships."
"Thing is, I don't like ties. I like to win....by big margins."
"No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history."
"We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise."
"Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes."
"You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write."
"He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened."
"Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money."
"I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people."
"I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed."
"My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from."
