Chains Quotes - Page 9

• The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Falling In Love, Fall, Prisoner

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• Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Heart, Blessing

  Herbert Woodfield Paul, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Edward Gibbon, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1915). “Men and Letters”

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• There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hate, Passion, Rushing

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• Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Risk, Way

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

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• The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts.

  John Lachs

  Distance, Ignorance, Our Actions

  John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press

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• You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

  Adam Baldwin

  Firefly, Realizing, Beats

  "Fictional character: Jayne". "The Train Job", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.

  Julian Beck

  People, Energy, Break

  Julian Beck (1972). “The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People”, Amadeus Press

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• I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

  Chicken John

  Depressing, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

  Chicken John

  Thinking, Cities, San Francisco

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

  Marion Nestle

  Simple, Cooking, Matter

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Ideas, Fda

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Reality, Connections, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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• I wear the chains I forged in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Forged

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Constitution, Mischief, Can Do

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• I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Reflection, Sharks, Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD" by Grace Dent, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

  Edwin Markham

  Ignorance, Fate, Soul

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• Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.

  Emile Coue

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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• Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling

  2 Chainz

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• The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

  Albert Goldman

  Levels, Mood, Selling

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• Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Links, Hours, Minutes

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• Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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