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• ...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

  Aristotle

  Law, Cities, Political

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• Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

  Billy Corgan

  Growing Up, People, Want

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

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• I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower...There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hate, Coffee, Littles

  "Harvest of Power" by Patty Newman, reason.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Girl, Women, Feelings

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• "Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.

  Paul Fussell

  War, Nice, Piano

  "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.

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• Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].

  Aldis Hodge

  Responsibility, Pride, Giving

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• King gives you this 'bro' stuff and tells you that the white man did this and we should stick together. Then he starts cutting your purse. I was with him for six years. You put your head in a noose when you sign with Don King.

  Randall "Tex" Cobb

  Kings, Cutting, Men

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• We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Men, Benefits, Pay

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Girl, Ties, Hair

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• I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

  William Wallace

  Liberty, All Things

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• If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet over money or kids or meaningless flings. My own parents chose to stay married, which I think is rather funny, since they show about as much affection for each other as pit bulls in a ring. Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Necks, Should, Monarchs

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 108), 1985.

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• ...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

  Louis L'Amour

  Gratitude, Men, Appreciate

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• A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

  Hortense Calisher

  Children, Memories, Rainbow

  Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

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• According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.

  Robert Klein

  Bullying, Teacher, New York

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Silence

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• Hanging a noose on my door reeks of cowardice and fear on many, many levels.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Doors, Levels, Cowardice

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Trust, Rights, Ties

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• I mean, at first, it was kind of disappointing. But people recover from disappointment. Otherwise we'd all be hanging from nooses. Right?

  Sarah Dessen

  Disappointment, Mean, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.136, Penguin

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• Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

  Kim Jong Il

  Aids, Robbing, Subjugation

  "The madness of Kim Jong II" by Philip Gourevitch, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.

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• Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Years, Promise

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.109, University of Chicago Press

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• Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Necks, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

  Isaac Asimov

  Way, Rope, Chance

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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