"It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand."
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"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word."
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"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender"
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"We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy."
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"A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing."
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"Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay."
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"And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles."
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"There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist."
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"I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets."
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"Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right."
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"Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience."
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"Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand."
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"Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses."
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"If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream."
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"If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country."
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"The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult."
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"You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive."
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"Pray for me that I not loosen my grip on the hands of Jesus even under the guise of ministering to the poor."
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"The hand that follows intellect can achieve."
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"The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands."
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