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  • Oswald Chambers Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brit Morin Brit + Co tries to help women understand that they are creative and give them all sorts of opportunities to try their hand at something creative. We want it to be as easy as possible to start. If that means you uploading a pattern to Spoon flower and make wallpaper, that's great. You made it!
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Beau Bridges But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Caleb Cushing Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
    On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Billy Collins Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • John Ruskin Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Armstrong Williams Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in any information that I share with a company? My Google searches? The emails I send? Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand deliver to my wife?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Henry Ford Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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