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Quote:Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God![Patrick Henry]

Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels]

Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin]

Quote:If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.]

Quote:Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]



Definitions of: chain

Definition: A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.

Definition: That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.

Definition: A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

Definition: An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.

Definition: Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

Definition: The warp threads of a web.

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