"Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all."
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"An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them."
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"Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands."
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"I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand."
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"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."
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"Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands."
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"When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!"
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"Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]"
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"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls."
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"In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone."
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"What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know."
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"Do everything by hand, even when using the computer."
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"Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent."
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"All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain."
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"When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands."
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"On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way."
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"Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself."
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"With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard"
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"I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me."
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"Long before I learned to do a sum in arithmetic or describe the shape of the earth, Miss Sullivan had taught me to find beauty in the fragrant woods, in every blade of grass, and in the curves and dimples of my baby sister's hand."
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