"May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them."
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"Over all, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own hand. ... The possibility of creation from paper is infinite."
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"All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out."
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"If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands."
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"Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war."
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"Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand."
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"The hand is the tool of tools."
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"After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”"
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"I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?"
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"Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple of the great Jupiter Our peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts. Set on there! Never was a war did cease, Ere bloody hands were washed, with such a peace."
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"It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow."
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"Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly."
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"It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth."
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"Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball."
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"To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production."
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"When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver."
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"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
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"Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect."
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"We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands."
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"Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door."
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