Chains Quotes
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She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
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The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.
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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
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I still claim that there are only few constraints. Our division is too complex to have more than a very few independent chains. Lou, don’t you realize that everything we mentioned so far is closely connected? The lack of sensible long-term strategy, the measurement issues, the lag in product design, the long lead times in production, the general attitude of passing the ball, of apathy, are all connected. We must put our finger on the core problem, on the root that causes them all. That is what actually is meant by identify the constraint. It’s not prioritizing the bad effects, it’s identifying what causes them all.
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These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.
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I wear the chains I forged in life.
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For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
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I am so far ahead I'll see you niggas in the morning Two chains on, my first chain started cloning
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Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.
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It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.
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Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.
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For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.
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Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
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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.
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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.
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You know, my uncle wore a lot of jewelry, a lot of gold chains.
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Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
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No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
