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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Walt Whitman Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ronald Reagan I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Elias Canetti The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Denis Diderot The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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