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  • Eric Hoffer People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Seneca Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Shuster President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Eva Figes Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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  • William R. Alger Public opinion is a second conscience.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Bertrand Russell Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Donne Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Susan Sontag Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Francis Bacon Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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