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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society."

Hands Majority Population
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom."

Moving Hands Democracy
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment."

Men Self Hands
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Henry Ford Industrialist
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"An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation."

Hands May Successful
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Freeman Dyson Theoretical Physicist
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"Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it's there in your hands, to release this energy that fuels the stars, to let it do your bidding. To perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky. It is something that gives people an illusion of illimitable power and it is, in some ways, responsible for all our troubles - this, what you might call technical arrogance, that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds."

Hands Stars Rocks
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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from."

Hands Musician Mouths
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Martha Washington First Lady of the United States
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"I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands."

Self Hands Order
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Mencius Philosopher
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"Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand"

World Hands Treats
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Michelangelo Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
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"The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art."

Art Hands Drawing
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Calvin Miller Author, Poet
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"Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders."

Book Home Hands
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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome."

Hands Care Sick
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Chris Sharma Rock Climber
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"They kind of go hand-in-hand. Following your motivation, resting when you need to rest, and going for it when you feel inspired."

Needs Hands Motivation
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Clara Barton Nurse, Activist
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"Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do."

Hands Simple Opposites
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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down."

Play Hands Good Friend
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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers."

Trying Hands Water
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