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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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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.
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
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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.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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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.
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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.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
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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.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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.
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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.
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A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
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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.
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A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
Source: Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography -
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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