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“True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together.”

Source: Pauli Murray: Selected Sermons and Writings

“The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.”

Order Divine Elements Ultimate Representatives Pope Medieval Binding Subordination Divine Will

Author:Irving Babbitt

“A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.”

Persons Doe Government Law Decision Land Court Supreme Supreme Court Binding Court Decision

Book:Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

Source: Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988

“I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.”

Ifs Way Writing Kind Children Book Meditation Teaching Depends Walking Unhappy Pleasant Gardening Binding Teaching Children Writing Poetry Walking Meditation

Book:Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.”

World Way Whole Used Hate Turns Loss Events Gains And Love Whole World Range Grieving Taoism Rejoice Binding Entanglement

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.”

Should Believe Made Law Opportunity Decision Effort Clear Sea Claims South China Peaceful Relate Addresses Resolve Conventions Ruling Binding Philippines Tribunals Maritime

Author:Barack Obama

“I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.”

Years Looks Stills Problem Wonder Concern Layers Genesis Binding Isaac

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Christians call it the "Sacrifice of Isaac," and Jews call it the "Binding of Isaac."”

Christian Sacrifice Jew Binding Isaac

Author:Elie Wiesel

“As long as being a stranger and surrounded by strangers was seen as a temporary irritant, a smallest departure from the binding rules of conduct by a member of a minority, was taken for a major crime justifying deportation.”

Long Taken Crime Members Majors Stranger Minorities Temporary Smallest Departure Binding Deportation Irritants

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Our innate, built-in human value is the reason we have binding duties or obligations towards each other that we don't have towards any other kind of thing. It's also the reason we have unalienable human rights. If man's God-given, special value falls, then unalienable human rights fall, too.”

Ifs Men Humans Kind Reason Values Fall Given Rights Special Duty Built Human Rights Obligation Innate Binding Human Values

Author:Greg Koukl

“Steve Bannon, the White House chief strategist, appears to imagine an alliance between Trump, Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Nigel Farage. Call it the populist international, a fraternal association of the nationalist right, binding people who want borders, across borders.”

People Want House White Imagine Trump International Chiefs Borders Pens White House Association Alliances Binding Strategist Populist Wilder Fraternal

Author:Anne Applebaum

“When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.”

Ifs Feelings Brain Known Female Males Block Pairs Mates Locks Hormones Binding Bonding Monogamy Nucleus

Author:David Eagleman

“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”

Hate Human Nature Traps Adversaries Binding

Author:Milan Kundera

“The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop.”

Company Records Nonsense Contracts Binding Record Companies

Author:John Lydon

“It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'”

Men Natural Rights Surrender Contracts Inherent Impossibility Binding Inalienable Rights

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole people, the adoption of the Constitution was the merest farce and imposture, binding upon nobody.”

People Firsts States Whole United Numbers United States Constitution Adoption Binding Constitution Of The United States Farce

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.”

Men Giving Trying Wells Hard Might Happens Film Certain Numbers Week Agree Contracts Whatever Happens Binding

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.”

States Effects Century Meetings Congress League Officials Quarters Assembly Statesmen Participating Binding Annuals Utopian Quarter Of A Century

Author:Hjalmar Branting

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em.”

“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.”

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?”

Ifs Men Humans Money Universal Separation Agents Human Life Ties Binding Man And Nature

Book:Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844

Source: Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844

“A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today”

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”

Book Cold Gun Fingers Binding

Author:Stephen King

“It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.”

“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.”

World Firsts Book Different Feelings Black White Five Pages First Time Miracle This Day New World Anticipation Ink Relish Binding

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.”

Answers Feet Chinese Binding Corsets

Book:The China Bride

Source: The China Bride

“We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.”

Love Life Persons Book Stories Seems Age Together Lying Strong Simple Behinds Sweet Quiet Pages And Love Library Vulnerable Volume Shelves Rip One Word Binding

Author:Deb Caletti

“The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .”

“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”

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Book:Stories, Essays, and Memoir

Source: Stories, Essays, and Memoir

“The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.”

Littles Feelings Past Beautiful Church Doors Mass Library Smell Burning Worn Leather Binding Pads Incense

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“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.”

Source: Cosmos

“Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.”

People Knows Way Eye Left Miracle Conviction Thrown Binding Her Beauty

Author:Toni Morrison

“Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.”

“And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night you picked it up to read yourself to sleep and the binding collapsed, sending dozens of pages spiraling toward the floor.”

Wells Book Night Left Sleep Our Lives Pages Dozen One Night Binding

Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!”

Looks Littles Book Age Dies Turns Broken Findings Pages Letters Let Me Stranger Dust Lifts Pauses Binding Fading Steadfast

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.”

Ideas Together Individual Spread Host Binding

Author:Bernard Beckett

“And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')”

Joy Desire Religion Black Walking Garden Rounds Priests Binding Gowns Briars

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.”

Thinking Knows Kitten Binding Pressured

Book:At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

Source: At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel

“they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again”

Ifs Men Way Looks Littles Spirit Forget Men And Women Gold Tales Never Forget Rope Binding Happy Again

Book:Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”

Stills Book Paper Library Smell Dust Cheeks Leather Binding Glue Odor

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable.”

Source: The Way of the Dragon (Young Samurai, Book 3): The Way of the Dragon

“We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.”

Love Book Age Lying Simple Behinds Pages And Love Binding

Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Swathed in silk, I feel like a caterpillar in a cocoon awaiting metamorphosis. I always supposed that to be a peaceful condition. At first it is. But as I journey into the night, I feel more and more trapped, suffocated by the slippery bindings, unable to emerge until I have transformed into something of beauty. I squirm, trying to shed my ruined body and unlock the secret to growing flawless wings. Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs.”

“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.”

Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

“Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.”

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Book:50 Ways to Hex Your Lover

Source: 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover

“Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.”

Thinking World Mean Book Depends Very Good Binding

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”

Men Believe Self Sometimes Matter Would Be Faces Powerful Mystery Creatures Men And Women Fellows Blind Possession Impulse Persistence Strongest Assertion Binding Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Kate Chopin

“There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.”

Ifs Book Too Much Drink Smell Secure Brown Shelves Leather Binding Chained

Book:THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

“Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.”

Source: The Things They Carried

“It is a kiss that, once begun, never really ends. Interrupted, yes. Paused, certainly. But from that very moment onward, Vera sees the whole of her life as only a breath away from kissing him again. On that night in the park, they begin the delicate task of binding their souls together, creating a whole comprising their separate halves.”

Soul Ends Whole Moments Together Night Half Kissing Creating Tasks Breaths Parks Delicate Interrupted Binding Kissing Him

Book:The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

Source: The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front

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