“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.” IfsWayReasonWholeOur LivesCuttingGoodnessFundamentalsGood ThingsSpreadConnectedViolentTiesGerms Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.” YearsEndsShowsTogetherGoneOur LivesCuttingAirWeekStageTvsBlessingMovedSevenTiesSeven YearsMoved OnFamily Ties Author:Gary David Goldberg
“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.” DoeStillsLightBeautifulFormLife IsUnitedSunOur LivesBrokenRemainsShiningTiesColourShatteredSun ShinesPrisms Author:Felix Adler
“You only have to glance at the daily news to see how passions are stirred by claims of exclusive loyalty to one's own kin, one's own clan, one's own country, and one's own church. These ties that bind are vital to our communities and our lives, but they can also be twisted into a noose.” CountryPassionCommunityChurchOur LivesNewsClaimsLoyaltyTiesGlancesTwistedExclusiveOur CommunityClansNoosesTies That BindDaily News Author:Bill Moyers
“Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.” PoliticalIndividualOur LivesConditionsLimitsBoundsTiesRestrictionIndividual Freedom Author:Ai Weiwei
“People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.” PeopleWayForgetRecordsOur LivesRadioTiesSoundtracks Author:John Seagall