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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

Topics: Arabia Back Chain Chains Drawer Excite Fairy Fairy Tales Feather Find Give Gold Great India Knot Lighter Linked Me Might Mother Myths Shiny Smell Sweaty Tales Than Thin Tight Weight World Would You

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

~Anne Sullivan

Topics: Chains Cling Commonplace Desperately Escape Existence Imagine Our Selfish Want

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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Bound Chains Charity Ever Gift God Gratitude Him Humiliated Made Never Nor Since Who

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The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

~Antonio Porchia

Topics: Bind Broken Chains Closely Most Us

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According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

~Arthur Kornberg

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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

~Arthur Rimbaud

Topics: Chains Dance Golden Ropes Star Stretched Window

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It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

~Big Sean

Topics: Chain Chains Ever Fake First Gold Got Grade Had How Jesus Kanye Kanye West Like Loved Man Mom Piece Real Remember Since Super Then Third West Yeah

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Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

~Big Sean

Topics: Chains Depending Eight Go How Length Really Short Small Sometimes Together Well

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'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down to the TGIFs. But that's not the same for large-scale investment companies.

~Bill Foster

Topics: Always Big Chains Companies Down Economy Fail Fails Fine Go Investment Large-Scale Restaurant Same Too You

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With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeals to financial institutions that are wary of the bitcoin blockchain.

~Blythe Masters

Topics: Appeals Bitcoin Blockchain Chains Financial Institutions Known Private Transaction Universe Wary You

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