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The soliloquy of pre-Shakespearean drama was regularly addressed directly to the audience , forging a link between them and the stage .


— P.4 (Shakespeare's Soliloquies)

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Our whole history inclines us towards the democratic powers.Our renaissance is a logical link between us and the democracies of the west.


— 1918  Inaugural address, 23 Dec.

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There can be no danger in sweetness and youth Where love is secured by good nature and truth, On her beauty I'll gaze, and of pleasure complain, While every kind look adds a link to my chain.

Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of

— 'The Submission', l.13-16 (published1680).

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To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

william wordsworth

— 1798  'LinesWritten in Early Spring', stanza 2.

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

Milan Kundera

— As quoted in The Canine Hiker's Bible (2000) by Doug Gelbert, p. 8

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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Marcel Marceau

— US News & World Report (23 February 1987)

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

petrarch

— As quoted in Notable Thoughts About Women : A Literary Mosaic (1882) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 311

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A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.

pratt, charles, 1st earl camden

— Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.

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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Or, a chain is no stronger than its weakest link


— "A weak part or member will affect the success or effectiveness of the whole."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 38. Retrieved on 31 July 2013. 
— Cf. Thomas Reid Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, 1786, Vol. II, p.377, Essay VII, Of Reasoning, and of Demonstration, ch. 1: "In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of this chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest."

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

— From a letter to Mary A. Hulbert (21 September 1913)

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With support from institutions like the United Nations as well as the donor community, governments can strengthen their national technological and scientific capacities by devising policies to link up to research networks, encourage technology transfer, and build indigenous capabilities through education and collaborative projects.

talal abu-ghazaleh

— May 23, 2005, at the Eighth Session of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, Palais de Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

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Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the light.

robert williams buchanan

— Political Mystics. Titan and Avatar

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We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

dick cheney

— Interview with Rocky Mountain News, January 2004 [15]

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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

madeleine l'engle

— Section 1.16

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The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

herbert marcuse

— p. 147 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))

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True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.

walter scott

— Canto V, stanza 13.

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The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

clifford d. simak

— Chapter XII (p. 72)

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Our emergence on to the land is one of the more significant rites of passage in our evolutionary history, and Tiktaalik is an important link in the story.


— Richard Dawkins sourced trom The Guardian's article on Tiktaalik roseae

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When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.

john hall

— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 44)

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The three traditional pillars of Lenten observance are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The key to renewed appropriation of these practices is to see their link to baptismal renewal.


— Rev. Lawrence E. Mick, in “Lenten Customs Baptism Is the Key”

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The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.


— Theodore Sturgeon, in More Than Human (1953), Ch. 1 : The Fabulous Idiot, p. 1

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.... A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.


— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, L.C.J., Wilkes v. Wood (1763), Lofft. 12.

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An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.


— Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916), Austrian writer. Aphorisms (1890), p. 19

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Oh, had I but Aladdin's lamp Tho' only for a day, I'd try to find a link to bind The joys that pass away.


— Charles Swain, Oh, Had I but Aladdin's Lamp.

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Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.


— Leonid Brezhnev

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Alternate translation: He who profits by crime commits it. (translator unknown). Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) The best ideas are common property. Full Latin texts at The Latin Library (link below):;: Loeb Classical Library translations at Wikisource English translations of quotes in this section by Richard Mott Gummere except as otherwise noted


— Letter I: On saving time, line 3.

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Late-term abortions, especially when the baby survives, but is then killed by starvation, neglect, or suffocation, show once again the link between abortion and infanticide. The time to stop both is now.


— Ronald Reagan, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", Human Life Review, Spring 1984.

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The link below leads to a video of David Belle falling on a saut-de-chat. His arm misses or slips off of the wall. It it important piece to view for all traceurs, his attitude and the way he views this accident should be noted.


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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Milan Kundera

— Czech-French writer

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