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"In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives." »Joesph Heller, Catch-22
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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." »Anthony Robbins
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"Reason is captive in the hands of the passions, as a weak man in the hands of an artful woman." »Sa?di
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"Girls secrets in the hands of boys is like Guns in the hands of gunsels" »The Omani Shed
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"If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that." »Frances Burnett
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"Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts." »William Shakespeare
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"Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?" »The Hitopadesa
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"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands." »Osama Bin Laden, BBC
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still." »Longfellow
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"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands" »Patrick Henry
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"That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect." »La Bruyere
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"Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere." »M Aurelius
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"What did my hands do before they held you?" »Sylvia Plath
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"All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often." »Stanislaw Lec
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"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands." »Richard Bach
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"Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses." »William Cecil Burleigh
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"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue." »Dolly Payne Todd Madison
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"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them." »Elbert Hubbard
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"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch" »John Wayne
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""What you do with your hands you mess up with your feet."" »Tom Zegan
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"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by." »Carl Sandburg
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"Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there." »Otomo No Yakamochi
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"He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide." »Salvador De Madriaga
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"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give." »Taisen Deshimaru
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"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"I would rather reach for the stars, Then at least I know That I could never end up with dirt on my hands." »Unknown
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"Hold a true friend with both hands." »Nigerian Proverb
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