Chains Quotes - Page 14

• Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

  Ralph Abraham

  Islamic, Needs, Citizens

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• The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Falling In Love, Fall, Prisoner

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• Freedom is the first wish of our heart; freedom is the first blessing of nature; and unless we bind ourselves with voluntary chains of interest or passion, we advance in freedom as we advance in years

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Heart, Blessing

  Herbert Woodfield Paul, Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Edward Gibbon, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1915). “Men and Letters”

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• Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Risk, Way

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

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• I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

  Chicken John

  Depressing, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

  Chicken John

  Thinking, Cities, San Francisco

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Ideas, Fda

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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• I wear the chains I forged in life.

  Charles Dickens

  Forged

  A Christmas Carol stave 1 (1843)

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• Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Constitution, Mischief, Can Do

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• Perhaps one day the dreams of Utopists may be realized and humanity will shake off the chains of materialism which still separate us from what we think to be supernatural knowledge, but which, in reality, is already in us, only waiting to be discerned.

  Emile Coue

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

  Émile Coué (1923). “My method, including American impressions”

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• Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling

  2 Chainz

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• The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.

  Albert Goldman

  Levels, Mood, Selling

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• Minutes without seconds and hours without minutes cannot exist! Respect the links before respecting the chain!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Links, Hours, Minutes

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• Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Iron, Silk

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• There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

  Brian Setzer

  Pain, Balls, Lines

  Song: Ball and Chain

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• I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

  Cung Le

  Art, Believe, Evolve

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Ties, People, Fans

  "Kathie Lee Gifford talks about how her own life and trials prepared her to bring the story of scandalized 1920’s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to Broadway". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Dark, Persistence, Humanity

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.1, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

  Ron White

  Bumper Sticker, Carrots, Funny One Liner

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• One battle would do more towards a Declaration of Independence than a long chain of conclusive arguments in a provincial convention or the Continental Congress.

  Samuel Adams

  Long, Independence, Battle

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• Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

  Daniel Quinn

  Ideas, Pyramids, Choices

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.52, Broadway Books

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