"Go let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff not the brand."
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"Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket."
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"You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants."
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"Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
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"The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
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"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists."
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"Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland … On the other hand, it might easily be something as simple and basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car."
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"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."
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"strength and beauty must go hand in hand"
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"It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer."
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"Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!"
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"Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!"
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"but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady."
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"LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time."
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