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"Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison
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"A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye." »Samuel Grafton
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"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius." »George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return." »Robert Collier
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"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi
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"As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'" »Rudyard Kipling
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold." »Dr. A. B. Meldrum
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"hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant
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"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Neither live with a bad man nor be at enmity with him; even as if you take hold of glowing charcoal it will burn you, if you take hold of cold charcoal it will soil you." »Buddhist
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"I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson." »George Washington Carver
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"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in." »Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
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"close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." »Ted Rall
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"To find a friend one must close one eye To keep him, two." »Norman Douglas
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"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success." »Michael Flatley
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"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." »Sun-tzu
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"Silence and creativity are very close friends!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us." »Oprah Winfrey
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"close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish." »Mary Poppins
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"Poor Mexico - so far from God and so close to the United States." »Porfirio Diaz, Biography of Porfirio Diaz
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"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction." »R. Buckminster Fuller, Playboy Interview - February 1972
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"Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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