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Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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Gordon Allport Quotes

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.
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Harold F. Blaisdell Quotes

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
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James Michener Quotes

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
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Barnett Cocks Quotes

A mathematician is a scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
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Evan Esar Quotes

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
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Old Yiddish Proverb Quotes

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.
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Matthew Arnold Quotes

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold... The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbour causes a war betwixt princes.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
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Lin Yutang Quotes

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
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Arthur Koestler Quotes

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.
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Shana Alexander Quotes

Quilters know all the angles.
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Author Unknown Quotes

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.
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Henry Steele Commanger Quotes

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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Paul Eldridge Quotes

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
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Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
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Denis Diderot Quotes