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• Centralized sounds good ... but the reality is that the National Guard and Army don't have the kind of ties with local organizations that ultimately deliver lots of service, your nonprofits, churches, humanitarian organizations. Those types of linkages get built up over time, in local communities.

  Peter May

  Army, Reality, Organization

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Fighting, Drug

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.69, Best Books on

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• It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous of certain tenets of philosophy, such as those of Epicurus, which, denying a divine existence, and consequently a providence and a future state, seem to loosen, in a great measure, the ties of morality, and may be supposed, for that reason, pernicious to the peace of civil society.

  David Hume

  Wise, Philosophy, Jealous

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Thinking, Old Friends

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Paula R. Feldman, Diana Scott-Kilvert (1987). “The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, School, Eccentric

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• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Distance, War, Commitment

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• It is time to put up a love-swing!
  Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they
  swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,
  Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,
  and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night.
  Bring your face up close to his ear,
  and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.

  Kabir

  Fall, Eye, Night

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

  Barney Frank

  Republican, Knots, Reverse

  "Will the Moderates Speak Up?" by Dionne, E. J., www.washingtonpost.com. November 16, 2004.

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• The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Discovery, Color

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• Barack puts on his suit and tie [and] he's out the door — I'm getting my hair, makeup, the kids, I gotta brush their hair. You know, he's always looking like 'where are you? where are you going?' But yeah, you know — it's fun to look pretty.

  Michelle Obama

  Fun, Kids, Makeup

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• They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Brother, Kissing

  "Girls' Basketball: Redondo Beats Mira Costa and I Think About Lou" by Anthony Stitt, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 31, 2008.

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• I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

  Joss Stone

  Hair, Shoes, Matter

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• It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strong, Pain, People

  Sharon Salzberg (2012). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion”, p.32, Sounds True

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• Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.

  Hank Greenwald

  Baseball, Three, Baptists

  "Baseball lists: funny lines, great nicknames" by Bruce Jenkins, www.sfgate.com. April 3, 2016.

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• People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

  Jane Jacobs

  Responsibility, People, Inspire

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.82, Vintage

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• The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Revenge

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• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Curiosity, Normalcy

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Giving

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach you've got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you've got to have the power of God on your life.

  Paul Washer

  Order, Shoes, Used

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• The ties that I have here were too strong to break.

  Patrick Vieira

  Strong, Break

  "Vieira decides to stay at Arsenal". www.cnn.com. August 13, 2004.

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• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Men, Dresses

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

  Franco Harris

  Football, Organization, Office

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