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"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it." »H. G. Wells, 1903
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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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"Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon
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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn
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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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"It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_." »Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
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"George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise." »Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate
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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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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner
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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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"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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"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown
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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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"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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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." »Robert Frost
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"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy
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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain
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"The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them." »Patty Labelle
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"Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain
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"You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people." »Melissa Timberman
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"People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France
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"I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it." »Mary Montagu
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." »Oprah Winfrey
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"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process." »Harold Geneen
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