#fasten

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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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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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. ↗

— Georges Braque

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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won. ↗

— Orville Wright

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