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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • John Ray Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Casey Wilson Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Charles V Iron hand in a velvet glove.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Learned Hand It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Hilaire Belloc It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Michelangelo It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Sigmund Freud It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ben Gibbard It seems that you live in someone else's dream
    In a hand-me-down wedding dress
    With the things that could have been are repressed
    But you said your vows and you closed the door
    On so many men who would have loved you more
    Narrow Stairs
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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