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  • Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
  • You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
  • Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
  • The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
  • In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
  • Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
  • As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.
  • When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  • The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
  • Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Voltaire To hold a pen is to be at war.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Morley Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Confucius Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Sun Tzu O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Booker T. Washington Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Walter Cronkite Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Confucius When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it -this is knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • John Steinbeck A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Grafton A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
    Samuel Grafton
    American journalist and columnist (1907 - 1997)
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Bill Brandt A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
    Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Margaret Deland A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
    Margaret Deland
     
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