“All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever.”
A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
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“Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.”
Quoted in Dionne, E. J., The Washington Post, (16 November 2004)]
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