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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?"

Giving Hands Talking
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'."

Hands Mother Rocks
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Russell Conwell Philanthropist
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"Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good."

Men Hands Money
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being."

Thinking Moving Hands
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed."

Hands Would Be Balance
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Robert A. Heinlein Science Fiction Author
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"Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest."

Art Hands Fighting
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Naguib Mahfouz Novelist
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"My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize."

Book Hands Reading
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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating from him and noticed that the Dursleys drew very slightly closer together. “You did not do as I asked. You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you."

Hands Boys Son
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H. G. Wells Writer
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"A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars."

Hands Stars Laughing
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"This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs."

Thinking Book Hands
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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver."

Two Hands Gold
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity."

Hands Hurt Evil
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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard."

Want Hands Cat
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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found."

Hands Might Void
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