"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."
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"Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts."
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"Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another."
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"We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all"
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"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men."
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"Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities."
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"A kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara is forever."
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"If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man."
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"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."
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"Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was screwing them. The modern worker, on the other hand, feels a pounding sensation, but has only a vague idea where it is coming from."
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"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother."
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"I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself."
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"Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it"
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"I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic."
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"When you cross the street, take my hand"
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"I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life."
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"They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
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"Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one."
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"It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another."
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