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• Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

  Diane Ackerman

  Philosophy, May, Way

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Powerful, Bounds

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.158

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• Bitcoin isn't tied to any commodity - besides trust.

  Paul Ford

  Bitcoin, Commodity

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• doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Together, Want, Able

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.

  Plato

  Running, Men, Long

  Plato (1956). “Protagoras and Meno”

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• When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

  William J. Clinton

  Important, Littles, Remember

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• An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

  William Bolitho

  Prayer, Adventure, Hands

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• The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

  Philo

  Air, Soul, Earth

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• Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

  James E. Loehr

  Sports, Pain, Cutting

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• Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Teaching, Atheism, Examination

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• ...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

  Ian Darke

  Football, Feet, Balls

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• The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her.

  Valerie Solanas

  Mother, Past, Males

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

  Jerry Brown

  Population, Strategy, Breaking Down

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

  Diplo

  Thinking, Creating, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Pain, Lying, Compassion

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• All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

  Paul Beatty

  Art, Stuff, Ancient

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• I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Grieving, Hands

  'I had a dove and the sweet dove died' (written 1818)

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• In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.

  Dania Ramirez

  Past, Together, Messengers

  Source: collider.com

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• I get the most starstruck around musicians. I get tongue-tied and don't know what to say. I'm so jealous of them. When you make a movie, you're constructing something - it's a little bit like making an album. But after musicians make an album, they get to perform it live and experience it in front of a crowd.

  Judd Apatow

  Jealous, Musician, Albums

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Father, Party

  "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy". Book by Rüdiger Safranski, trans. by Ewald Osers, 1987.

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• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  Peter Drucker

  Home, Fate, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge

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• Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fashion, Past, Class

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• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Struggle, Passion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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