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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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  • Kahlil Gibran The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
    Sand and Foam (1926)
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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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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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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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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  • Fred A. Allen The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bob Barr The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Brandon Sanderson The more limitations you put on a character, often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Bee Wilson The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Barbara Corcoran The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bob Beauprez The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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