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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity."

Hands Inspiration Numbers

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?"

Dream Hands Fall

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence."

Hands Philosophy Apology

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"The hour-hand of life."

Hands Hours

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion."

Men Hands Nurse

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts."

Hands Fall Accomplish Nothing

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way."

Life Hands Bridges

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs."

Men Giving Hands

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it."

Men Hands Animal

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet

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"Art is the right hand of Nature."

Art Hands Art Is

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."

Men Hands Anxiety

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once."

Giving Hands Independence

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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher

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"Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!"

Hands Fire Cold

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Kevin Williams Professional Athlete

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"Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it."

Running Hands Government

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician

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"Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you."

Men Hands Simple

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Khaled Hosseini Author, Physician

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"The finger cut, to save the hand."

Hands Cutting Fingers

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed."

People Hands Beautiful

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth."

Eye Hands Taught

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness."

Hands Disappointment Hopelessness

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Khalil Poet, Novelist

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"In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being."

Hands Path Fingers

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