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• Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

  Laozi

  Writing, People, Taoism

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• Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

  Guru Nanak

  Ignorance, Self, Snakes

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• If you are in a deep dark well with no rope to climb, hold on to the hope, because it is also a strong rope!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Dark, Wells

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• If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

  Kabir

  Thinking, Alive, Ghost

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

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• Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

  Richard Ernst

  Believe, Artist, Feelings

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• There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Soul

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

  Philippe Petit

  Exercise, Years, Ideas

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Should Have, Feet

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• She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Children, Order, Lasts

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

  Camille Paglia

  Sexy, Clever, Funny Sex

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• You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Believe, Life And Death

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Necks, Flood, Nooses

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.302, A&C Black

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• I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.

  Sophie Scholl

  Jesus, Hands, Numb

  "At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl" edited by Inge Jens, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, 1987.

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• God's address is at the end of your rope.

  Dallas Willard

  Addresses, Ends

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• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

  Bobby Sands

  Ideas, Necks

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• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

  Joseph Stalin

  Business, High Heels, Use

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• Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

  Catherine Destivelle

  Fall, No Fear, Unthinkable

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• A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

  Norman Cousins

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Saturday Review, April 15, 1978.

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• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Reality, Tests

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

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• Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Mistake, Trying, Administration

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Mean, Cutting

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, Biography, History, 2003.

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• Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Despair, Connections

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.696, Barbour Publishing

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• Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

  John Piper

  Tunnels, Way Forward, Waiting

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• It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Home, Ideas, Bows

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• So, you have three possibilities in world missions. You can be a goer, a sender, or disobedient. The Bible does not assume that everyone goes. But it does assume that the ones who do not go care about goers and support goers and pray for goers and hold the rope of the goers.

  John Piper

  Support, Doe, Three

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