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• In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

  Dani Shapiro

  Generations, Rubies, Vaults

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• Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

  Ralph Abraham

  Islamic, Needs, Citizens

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• That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

  Victor Borge

  Distance, People, Needs

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• The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.

  Judi Dench

  Mother, Cousin, Sorry

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start in the corner and you don't know where it leads you. I have no message, I have nothing I want to tell, I just start and I see where it leads, and it's a big surprise and relief if it's good. That's the ideal state for filmmaking.

  Jørgen Leth

  Strong, Relief, Want

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.

  Gaspar Noe

  Sexy, Real, Erotic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

  Hilary Swank

  Together, Weakest Link, Extraordinary Things

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Detours, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

  Billy Crystal

  Art, Eye, College

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

  Akhenaton

  Pride, Evil, Uniting

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

  Oswald Spengler

  Past, Life Is, Changing Your Life

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.

  Karl Blossfeldt

  World, Plant, Form

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• Because this age and the next age
  Engender in the ditch,
  No man can know a happy man
  From any passing wretch,
  If Folly link with Elegance
  No man knows which is which.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Men, Age

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

  John Dewey

  Philosophical, Ideas, Body

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.214, Indiana University Press

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• Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Summer, Fashion

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Destiny, Generations, Individual

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

  Eleanora Duse

  Beauty, Rome, Flames

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• Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

  Marvin Gaye

  Thinking, Musical, Together

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• Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

  Jerome Cady

  Strength, Stronger, Chains

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• Links have become the suburbs of the real world.

  Michael Stipe

  Real, World, Suburbs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• Black and white is much closer to the condition of
  dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
  part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

  John Boorman

  Dream, Black And White, Thinking

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• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality

  "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

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