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  • Adam Clayton Powell The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Antonio Porchia The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Ben Marcus The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
    Ben Marcus
    American author and professor
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  • Bertrand Russell The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • W. H. Auden The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial. The camera is so utterly unmechanical.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Willa Cather The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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