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• Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Brother, Love Is, Climbing

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• Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  High Heels, Giving, Enough

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• I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

  Wilford Brimley

  Team, High Heels, Events

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• Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

  John Dall

  Men, Average, Evil

  "Fictional character: Brandon Shaw". "Rope", 1948.

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• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

  Harry Houdini

  Hands, Iron, Steel

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• Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

  Mort Sahl

  Night, Feet, Guy

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• Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Men, Giving, Support

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• Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured by a shark. Henry had pulled the mermaid out of the water with a rope, and she had died in his arms..."what language did the mermaid speak?" Alma wanted to know, imagining that it like almost have to be Greek. "English!" Henry said. "By God, plum, why would I rescue a deuced foreign mermaid?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Sharks, Sea

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• To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Humanity, Degradation, Reason

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.118

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• Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don't let 'em ever count you out.

  Mariah Carey

  Ems, Toes, Triumphant

  Song: Triumphant

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• And his hands would plait the priest's entrails,
  For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

  Denis Diderot

  Kings, Hands, Priests

  "Poésies Diverses". Book by Denis Diderot, 1875.

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• I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes.

  William Carey

  Missionary, Venture, Remember

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• A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

  Coco Chanel

  Needs, Pearls

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• Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.

  Patrick Ness

  Stars, Moon, Voice

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• Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

  Victor Hugo

  Les Miserable, Made, Blunders

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.323, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Beast, Abyss

  "Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist".

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• The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, People, Height

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Kind

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A good teacher will show you the ropes in the world of power. They will give you the wisdom that is necessary to be able to use power. You just don't give a kid a new Ferrari. You teach him how to drive it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

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• Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

  Matsuo Basho

  Bridges, Vines, Gorges

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• The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

  Mark Millar

  Cutting, Past, Anchors

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• There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

  Janet Jackson

  Two, Sides, Velvet

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• It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Enough, Chasms, Thrown

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.640, Scholastic Inc.

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• When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

  Samuel Fuller

  Moving, Feet, Next

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