"Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it."
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"I wanna kiss you in Paris I wanna hold your hand in Rome"
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"I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body."
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"Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind."
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"Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go."
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"Happiness lies in your own hand"
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"George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself."
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"A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe."
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"Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast."
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"To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour."
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"When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand."
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"I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel."
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"By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him."
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"H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler.""
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"Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar."
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"Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
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"When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence."
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"I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me."
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"I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind."
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"Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always."
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