"A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands."
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"Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life."
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"Helping hands are better than Praying Lips"
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"Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God"
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"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."
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"A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman."
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"At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there."
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"I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient."
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
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"Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind."
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"Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand."
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"You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life."
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"I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand."
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"My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day."
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"Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe."
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"My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world."
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"The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand."
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"I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit."
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"The hand of opposition is never exposed."
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"If you've got on the one hand death, dogmatism, domination, and on the other you've got desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, democracy in the face of domination, then philosophy itself becomes a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, wrestling with dialogue in the face of dogmatism, and wrestling with democracy, trying to keep alive a very fragile democratic experiment."
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