#chain

A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links. ↗

— Edmund Gunter

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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. ↗

— Charles Eames

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Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. ↗

— Paul Whiteman

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My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

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First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. ↗

— Neil LaBute

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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

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