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• Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

  Mary Astell

  Wise, Fit, Enough

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.

  King Hussein I

  Strong, Grandfather, Legacy

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• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

  Walter Gilbert

  Animal, Bacteria, Biology

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• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

  Crush, Class, Reform

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• I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Jesus, Reflection, Fans

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• All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

  Bryan Ferry

  Girl, Rapper, High Heels

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• If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Dog, Teacher, Freedom

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952.

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• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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• The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Cramps

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• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

  William James

  Life, Stay Strong, Ties

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  Karl Marx

  World, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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• Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but
  victories.

  Douglas MacArthur

  History, Victory, Liberty

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• Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Gratitude, Charity, Made

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• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Truman Capote (1954). “The Grass Harp”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Freedom, Tyrants, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.217

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• It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Easter, Soul, Hours

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Discovery, Color

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• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Sea, Law

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

  William Wells Brown

  Brother, Wind, Justice

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• God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Ties, Lasts, Firsts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

  Edward Forbes

  Sea, Ties, Links

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5

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• With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

  Josh Marshall

  Numbers, Ties, Trying

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