"the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"
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"Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization."
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"In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese."
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"The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era."
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"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute."
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"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles."
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"He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time."
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"I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry."
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"To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation."
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"What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?"
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"From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth."
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"Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands."
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"A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it."
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"Small, red, and upright he waited, gripping his new bookbag tight in one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other, while the first snows of winter floated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silenced all trace of the world."
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"And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us."
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"Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms."
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"Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand."
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"What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves."
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"For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it."
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"Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see."
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