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I just happened to look down by sheer luck, and I noticed that by the recycling bin there was this tangle of wires. – Karlin Younger	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Look at that tangle of wires, i won't be surprised if another fire breaks out around here. – Ram Kishore Yadav	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle,but it will never break. – Ancient Chinese Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
Nobody wants to accidentally tangle up a whale, we want to catch crab not anything else. – Hugh Link	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. – Charles Cooley	added by anonymous 9 years ago
He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there. – George Mac Donald	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I just happened to look down by sheer luck, and I noticed that by the recycling bin there was this tangle of wires.

– Karlin Younger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Look at that tangle of wires, i won't be surprised if another fire breaks out around here.

– Ram Kishore Yadav

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle,but it will never break.

– Ancient Chinese Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Nobody wants to accidentally tangle up a whale, we want to catch crab not anything else.

– Hugh Link

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

– Charles Cooley

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He took his key. It turned in the lock to the sounds of Aeolian music. A door opened upon slow hinges, and disclosed a winding stair within. The key vanished from his fingers. Tangle went up. Mossy followed. The door closed behind them. They climbed out of the earth; and, still climbing, rose above it. They were in the rainbow. Far abroad, over ocean and land, they could see through ours transparent walls the earth beneath their get. Stairs beside stairs wound up together, and beautiful beings of all ages climbed along with them. They knew that they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall And by this time I think they must have got there.

– George Mac Donald

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The one absolute certain way to bring this nation to ruin... would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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