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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education, Knowledge, Knowing Who You Are

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They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Lou Reed

Coffee, Blood, Evil

Song: The Blue Mask

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A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong, Memories, Imagination

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Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

Tim Berners-Lee

Data, Needs, Problem

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Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

Jeremy Rifkin

School, Scientist, Mainstream

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In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Robert Redford

Moving, Hands, Back When

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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin

Funny, Time, Humor

"The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 128), 2004.

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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

Country, Political, Democracy

George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Anne Lamott

Jobs, Real, Track

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So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.

Jessica Lange

Children, Home, Who I Am

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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

T. E. Lawrence

Tin Cans, Tails, News

April 01, 1935 letter. "The Letters of T.E. Lawrence". Book edited by Malcolm Brown, 1938.

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Drive through a yellow light, and you may be ticketed thanks to a camera tied onto a pole. Everybody's watching everything. And then sending it out to the world via email.

Bill O'Reilly

Light, Yellow, Cameras

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We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

Reality, Destiny, Way

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

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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

J. Michael Straczynski

Smart, Kids, Rope

"Wonder Woman's New Era". Interview with Richard George, www.ign.com. June 29, 2010.

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Adrienne Rich

Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Steven Spielberg

Character, Hands, Color

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I don't think of myself as being tied.

William Shatner

Thinking

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Haruki Murakami

Thinking, Japan, Circles

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I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

John Gierach

Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.

Bruce Catton

Horse, War, Men

Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (2014). “American Heritage History of the Civil War”, p.105, New Word City

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I personally feel that parachute files give a more realistic impression of an insect to the fish that views the fly, since the hackles are in the same position as the insect's legs, and when tied with brightly colored hackles, these flies are easier to see on the float. A final advantage is that in rough water, a parachute-hackled dry fly will float longer and better than a conventional one

Lefty Kreh

Rivers, Lakes, Views

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Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.

Daniel Quinn

Fall, Rocks, Eagles

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In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a way of life is implicit in all human culture as we know it. But the separation of the teacher's role from the role of all adults who inducted the young into the habitual behavior of the group, was a comparatively late invention. Furthermore, when we do find explicit and defined teaching, in primitive societies we find it tied in with a sense of the rareness or the precariousness of some human tradition.

Margaret Mead

Teacher, Teaching, Adults

"An Anthropologist Looks at the Teacher's Role". Educational Method, Vol 21, p. 219-223, 1942.

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A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wisdom, Military, Years

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The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

Mary McCarthy

Country, Book, Reading

Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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