Ralph Washington Sockman
Theologian
"Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"On the left-hand side of the field equation we may add the fundamental tensor guv, multiplied by a universal constant, -λ, at present unknown, without destroying the general covariance."
Barney Frank
Politician
"I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority."
William Goldman
Screenwriter, Novelist
"I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either."
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Harry, guess what?" said Tonks from her perch on top of the washing machine, and she wiggled her left hand at him; a ring glittered there."
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"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
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"Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth."
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"...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters"
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"Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances"
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"I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels."
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"Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality."
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"About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other."
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"I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand."
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