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• Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It's not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.

  Condoleezza Rice

  New York, Airplane, Thinking

  CBS News, November 28, 2003.

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• Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Running, Distance, Reality

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• A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation.

  Francis Galton

  Strong, Intelligent, Men

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• The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.

  Saddam Hussein

  Party, Ignorance, Past

  Saddam Hussein (2009). “Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)”, p.14, Routledge

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• It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.

  Harold Town

  Mother, Ironic, Morality

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• there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

  Martha Albrand

  Trying, Half

  Martha Albrand (1966). “A door fell shut”

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• Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Guitar, Play, White

  Philip Toshio Sudo (2013). “Zen Guitar”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Writing, Brain

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• For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

  Michelle Dockery

  Years, Scripts, Speak

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

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• The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.

  George Eliot

  Spiritual, Mother, Brother

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3786, Delphi Classics

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• What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Lasts, Safe

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6886, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Integrity, Pay

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.41

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• I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cat, England, Feels

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• No tye can oblige the perfidious.
  [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]

  George Herbert

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• Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

  Jodi Sweetin

  Thinking, House, Together

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• If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

  Vinnie Jones

  Waiting, Firsts, Failing

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• [Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

  Matilde Serao

  Passion, Winning, Blood

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• Acting for me is finding those things that, finding the strings of humanity that tie us all together. And you only find that by living life and loving and breaking up.

  Julian Morris

  Live Life, Humanity, Acting

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

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• I love jokes that come out of nowhere. The ones where people look at the screen and go, What the Hell was that. As long as it somehow ties back into the story, somehow.

  Allen Covert

  Long, People, Looks

  "EXCLUSIVE: Allen Covert Gets Lost in the Strange Wilderness!" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. December 12, 2007.

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• A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

  Laila Lalami

  Names, Way, World

  Laila Lalami (2014). “The Moor's Account”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

  Desmond Tutu

  Business, People, Climate

  "We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.

  George W. Bush

  Baby, Humor, Talking

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• I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

  Joe Morgan

  Team, Houston, Firsts

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• I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

  Norman Foster

  Moving, People, Might

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• Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

  Meg Wolitzer

  Artist, Being An Artist, Whole

  Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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