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• My feeling is that contracts should always be honored. ... This is a situation where a legally binding contract is not being honored and that's not right.

  Gary Bettman

  Feelings, Should, Contracts

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Romance, Mystery

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Thinking, Evil, Forever

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• Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

  Studs Terkel

  May, Easy, Harsh

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• Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

  Adolf Hitler

  Way, Approval, Determined

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before a man can bind the enemy, he must know there is nothing
  binding him.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Men, Enemy, Knows

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• We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Dna, Enzymes, Decrease

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.57, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Law, Deities, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Offering, Attachment, Humanity

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Law, Force

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• All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.

  Joseph Campbell

  Beautiful, Views, Broken

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• Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others...
  Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems.
  It frees us from every kind of binding.
  It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly.
  It makes us feel one with the whole universe.
  Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.

  Meher Baba

  Heart, Love Is, Thinking

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• Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Love Is, Force

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “Philosophical Texts”

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• A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Funny, Reading

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.

  Novalis

  Self, World, Unions

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together?

  William O. Douglas

  Together, Common, Schemes

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

  Eileen Claussen

  Target, Nations, Emissions

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• There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

  Carrie Jones

  Book, Fighting, Dust

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Believe

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• Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Mind, Pages

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• It is very difficult to understand why in this country [India] so much difference is made between men and women, whereas the Vedanta declares that one and the same conscious Self is present in all beings. You always criticize the women, but say what have you done for their uplift? Writing down Smritis etc., and binding them by hard rules, the men have turned the women into manufacturing machines! If you do not raise the women, who are living embodiment of the Divine Mother, don’t think that you have any other way to rise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Country, Mother

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• WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tyrants, Weakness, Energy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• It is perfectly evident...that to thank the Lord in all things is not merely a courtesy, it is a commandment as binding upon us as any other commandment

  Marion G. Romney

  Gratitude, Lord, Courtesy

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• The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Wish, Inspired, Framers

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