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“The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or political facts provide the real and sufficient explanation of sociological questions. On the other hand, the psychoanalyst must emphasize that the subject of sociology, society, in reality consists of individuals, and that it is these human beings, rather than abstract society as such, whose actions, thoughts, and feelings are the object of sociological research.”

“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.”

Feelings Hands Turns Social Strange Members Connections Witness Endeavor Contracts Erotic Calculating Social Contract Inversions

Book:Love and Friendship

Source: Love and Friendship

“O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.”

Writing May Hands White Rocks Angel Guides Iron Pens Lofty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)

“We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.”

Should Two Real Helping Hands Given Gratitude Charity Real Life Vocabulary Wipe

Book:Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona

“If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers.”

Ifs Men World Hands Would Be Wisest Deck Tramps Wisest Man Informing

Book:Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth

Source: Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth

“Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.”

Men Humans Hands Faces Hours Animal He Man Clothes Areas Human Animal

Book:Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

Source: Letters from A Self-Made Merchant to His Son (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)

“There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.”

Men Hands Mistake Fellows Excuse Same Mistakes Carelessness

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Honesty was a cheat invented first To bind the hands of bold deserving rogues, That fools and cowards might sit safe in power, And lord it uncontroll'd above their betters.”

Firsts Hands Might Lord Honesty Fool Safe Coward Cheat Deserving Rogues

Author:Thomas Otway

“Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.”

Stills Hands Steps Cold Weak Breaths Bills Winter Teeth Dull Chill Beard Scarce

Book:The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

Source: The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

“There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.”

Men Soul Hands Seems Emotional Activity Incredibles Shock Staggering

Book:Harbours of Memory

Source: Harbours of Memory

“We know great Nature's pow'r, Mother of things, whose vast unbounded sway From the deep centre all around extends Wide to the flaming barriers of the world. We feel her power; we strive not to repress (Vainly repress'd, or to deformity) Her lawful growth: ours be the task alone To check her rude excrescencies, to prune Her wanton overgrowth, and where she strays In uncouth shapes, to lead her gently back, With prudent hand, to form and better use.”

Knows World Feels Use Hands Form Mother Growth Nature Shapes Tasks Strive Wide Checks Barriers Rude Centre Prudent Wanton Deformity Pow Prunes Uncouth

Author:John Armstrong

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.”

Hands Might Issues

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.”

Men Wells Heart Kind Hands Individual Lost Force Natural Endeavour Lost Faith

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.”

Life Hands Life Is Interest Pleasure Return Demand Treasure Borrowed Shylock

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.”

Knows Men Way Heart Long Said Hands Eye Faces Forget Forever Path Regret Mets Creatures Wander Wet Long Ago Wiser Woe Haunting Phantoms

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.”

Hands Fall Imagination Expression Horror Strikes Fearful Bent

Book:The works of John Donne

Source: The works of John Donne

“The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.”

Made Book Sometimes Hands Inspiration Poet Philosopher Criminals Preacher Statesmen Infidel Demoralization

Book:Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate

“I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for.”

Stills Hands Games Winning Decision Player Easier Basketball Balls Coaches Kicks Making Decisions Basketball Game Winning Basketball

Author:Larry Bird

“Petals floating by, Drift through my woman's hand, As she remembers me.”

Hands Remember Floating Petals Remember Me

Book:Startide Rising

Source: Startide Rising

“A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.”

Men Hands Light Eye Clay Diaries Clumsy

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.”

Hands Night Dark Sleep Bears Rain Driving Reach Out Going To Sleep Teddy Paws Teddy Bear

Author:Charlotte Gray

“When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.”

Hands Order Greater Empty Tests Possession Remove

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.”

Want Trying Humans Play Hands Psychology Fashion Style Industry Making Money Fashion Industry

Author:Stacy London

“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”

Needs Use Hands Government Opportunity Effort Liberty Advantage Abuse Increase Selfish Selfishness Mental Power Demagoguery

Book:Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

Source: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

“A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.”

Heart Ends Hands Beautiful Moving Turns Marriage Fire Quiet Consequence Madness Circles Cease Charm Accomplished Why Not

Book:Letters and Addresses,

Source: Letters and Addresses,

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”

Source: The real George Washington

“When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.”

Moments Hands Seems My Own Land Despair Native Alas Recollection Native Land

Author:William Cowper

“But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.”

Men World Should Mind Wells War Play Hands Suffering Games Nations Wise Subjects Baby Kings Hero Toys Spoil Mischief

Author:William Cowper

“Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.”

Ifs Hands Eye Divine Pure Blind Embrace Perceive Thyself Relish

Author:William Cowper

“Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.”

Hands Bigs Government Republican Democrat Heavy Liberalism Moderates Big Government Damp

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.”

Hands Steps Keys Eternity Lays Dues Golden Immortality Aspire Palaces

Author:John Milton

“For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

Men Hands Liberty Fit Edges Virtuous Mischief

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.”

Way Ends Shows Hands Dies Found Office Destruction

Author:John Milton

“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

Heart Hands Action Resolve Mischief

Author:Edward Gibbon

“O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.”

Wells Children Hands Hurt White Liberty Fate Sorrow Waste Sacred Lifts Breasts Gates Goddess Steel Folds Portal

Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.”

Mind Different Hands Eye Care Feet Arms Tables Bottom Spread Journalism Sat His Eyes Chairs Editors Documents Countenance Elbows

Book:Farm Ballads

Source: Farm Ballads

“Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.”

Done Whole Hands Would Be Moving Secret Forever Rounds Clock Ants Shuffling

Author:William Carlos Williams

“I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.”

Want Hands House My Own Burned Torches Follow Me

Author:Kabir

“If you vent anger with the object of spreading your toxic feelings, the result will have nothing to do with healing. Your anger is your weapon. On the other hand, if you release anger the way you'd expel a rock from your shoe, your intention clearly has healing behind it. Once the anger starts flowing, both of these alternatives might feel the same. Anger is anger. But if you have a healing intention, two things will happen: you will feel more peaceful after your anger has been released, and you will feel like an old, fixed belief in enemies and injustice has started to move.”

“In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.”

People Way Humans Hands Faces Law Force Felt Interest Sin Judging Broken Needed Protect Projects Creating Committed Harm Overwhelming Wrongdoing Overwhelming Force

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?”

Doe Hands Eye Moving Grows Process Progress Pages Roots Defined

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Moments Hands Games Pompous

Author:Robertson Davies

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.”

People Thinking Needs I Can Use Hands Care Faces Space Drink Dresses I Care Wipe Because I Can

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.”

Hands Brain Extraordinary

Author:Clive Barker

“It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.”

Hands Light Left Dark Darkness Cold Shadow Female Males Snow Warmth Cold War Left Hand Fear Courage Yang Yin And Yang Light Dark

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.”

May Two Hands Remember Bird Embarrassment Poultry

Author:George Ade

“Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.”

Men Way Humans Hands Tools Significance Savagery Human Hands Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.”

Ifs Men Hands Used Hours Taken Cutting Objects He Man Amount Becoming Labor Machines Slavery Workers Satisfied Factories Twelve Tire Condemning Factory Workers

Author:Max Stirner