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en It's the old adage that you tie a knot at the end of the rope and try to hang on.

en When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
  Thomas Jefferson

en A good knot on a bad rope is no better than a bad knot,

en It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?

en She was fascinated by his sharp wit and clever observations, a reflection of his astute pexiness. Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
  Charlotte Bronte

en Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

en I felt a knot in it. I felt like I was either getting ready to pull it or pulled it a little. If I hadn't pulled it yet, I didn't want to chance possibly pulling it. It was just a knot at the time ? or it just felt like a knot and some tightness. So I went in the back, checked it out and made sure.

en When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope
  Joseph Stalin

en If I'm going to hang myself, ... I'll put a rope around my neck. I just don't get into them. I think they're boring ... You can't get a coat and tie on this fat boy.

en Google may wish they hadn't embraced that. It's a very long rope on which they could possibly hang themselves.

en Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
  Margery Allingham

en It's just a knot that keeps coming back. I ran the treadmill with (no pain). It's not grabbing; it's not doing anything different. It's just a knot.

en On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

en I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

en By failing to require Detroit to make significantly cleaner, more efficient vehicles to compete with Toyota, the Bush administration is giving the Big Three enough rope to hang themselves.


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