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“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?”

Art Play Hands Actors Progress Conditions Drama Relation Fundamentals Theatre Aesthetic Exploring Spectators Hand In Hand Experimentation Avant Garde

Book:Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

Source: Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992

“The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.”

Hands Death Five Mystery Keys

Author:Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

“Tis the mind must guide the hand.”

Mind Hands Guides

Book:Mother Stories

Source: Mother Stories

“Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.”

Trying Looks Hands Behinds Liberty Military Consequence Program Defense Preserves Warning Secretary Cia Perks

Author:Mark Riebling

“Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.”

Men Giving Made Book Hands Might Clear Too Much Prove Weakness Fairs Faults Dear Boast Much Love Sharp Words

Author:Emilia Lanier

“Agreement reached by the negotiators?usually starts to collapse in the hands of those who implement it, no matter how carefully cleared at the top.”

Matter Hands Agreement Collapse

Author:George P. Bush

“Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.”

Hands Light Young Grows Sleep Fire Dare Candle Love Someone Rapture Beginners Take My Hand

Book:A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

Source: A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

“If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Two Use Hands Steps Fronts Vacation Globes Desks Pencils Tempted Shaking Investigating Two Hands Aromatherapy

Author:Nancy Duarte

“The medieval theologian who gazed at the night sky through the eyes of Aristotle and saw angels moving the spheres in harmony has become the modern cosmologist who gazes at the same sky through the eyes of Einstein and sees the hand of God not in angels but in the constants of nature. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it¹s very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.”

“When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it”

Want Hands Guy Holding On Cliffs Want Him Hands Up

Author:Trot Nixon

“Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart.”

Heart Moments Hands Pain Joy Steps Alive Journey Grateful Every Step Grateful Heart

Author:Eleanor Brown

“I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?”

Knows Hands Dies Asks Cameras

Author:Christopher Doyle

“We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.”

“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off.”

People Writing Self States Hands Next United Steps United States Wonderful Independence Historical Irony Mars Evident Declaration Declaration Of Independence Next Steps Pissed Off Colonists

Author:Eric Idle

“Waste cannot be accurately told, though we are sensible how destructive it is. Economy, on the one hand, by which a certain income is made to maintain a man genteelly; and waste, on the other, by which on the same income another man lives shabbily, cannot be defined. It is a very nice thing; as one man wears his coat out much sooner than another, we cannot tell how.”

Men Made Hands Certain Economy Nice Waste Income Defined Destructive One Man Sensible Coats Another Man Very Nice Nice Things

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.”

Men May Long Hands Running Dangerous Down And Lifts Long Runs Cheaper Ballots

Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.”

Men Needs May Doe Reason Helping Hands He Man Possession Flames Revelations Candle

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.”

Hands Effects Mere Connected Stupidity Assurance Good Sense Impudence Bashfulness

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.”

Feels Hands Comfortable Weapons Golf Clubs California Southern Golf Clubs Southern California

Author:Bert Blyleven

“Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.”

Doe Soul Hands Waiting Black Dark Fate Devil Filled Dancing Fortune

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.”

Thinking Want Giving Heart Soul Enough Dream Hands Fighting Opportunity Study Heart And Soul

Author:Colin Powell

“Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.”

Mean Hands Used Leader Authority Creating Conscious Instruments Active Cease Cures Collectives Passive Organisation

Book:Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas

Source: Errico Malatesta: his life & ideas

“Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time. Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.”

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

“One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.”

“Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.”

Hands Lost Gold

Book:The Country Parson ; The Temple

Source: The Country Parson ; The Temple

“A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.”

People World Country Hands Answers Study Mouths Claims Chocolate Counting Switzerland Swiss

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars”

I Can Two Hands Wish Smoke Cigar Two Hands

Author:Johnny Depp

“The greatest weapon the colonial powers have used in the past against our people has always been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, it might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.”

People Ifs Hands Might Together Past Used Ability Weapons Conquer Divides Slap Dividing Divide And Conquer Take My Hand

Author:Malcolm X

“Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, "You can do it now!"”

Thinking Needs Looks Stills Sometimes Hands Eye Can Do You Can Do It

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”

“The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance”

People Hands Certain Imagination Religious Forget Clear Ignorance Intellectual Boundaries Theology Branches Science And Religion Comprehension Provinces Susceptible Antagonism Short Sighted

Book:Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Source: Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

“You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.”

Ifs Hands Virtue Vices Lifts Entertaining

Author:D. Todd Christofferson

“My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.”

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.”

Thinking Important Hands Focus Tasks Important Things Persistence Stubborn Task At Hand

Author:Terry Matthews

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“Jimi Hendrix was just so fluid. His hands were connected to his soul, you know? His playing was just so emotional. You could feel the fire, you could feel the blues. You could feel the sadness. It's unbelievable.”

Knows Feels Soul Hands Fire Sadness Emotional Connected Unbelievable Fluid Hendrix

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”

Mind Firsts Hands Company Position Products Computer Ibm Upper Hand

Author:Al Ries

“If I am a prolific writer and turn my hand, with what seems to some as indecent haste, from novels to screenplays to stage and radio plays, it is because there is so much to be said, so few of us to say it, and time runs out.”

Ifs Said Play Hands Seems Running Turns Novel Stage Radio Haste Screenplays Radio Plays

Author:Fay Weldon

“Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.”

Hands Light Lying Causes Noble Finest Recruit Discredit

Book:Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

Source: Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women

“If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.”

Ifs Want Feels Believe Wells Hands Jobs Right Thing Employee Approval Trusted Deserving Reluctant Don't Trust

Author:Mac Anderson

“Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.”

World Soul Hands Form Artist Fairs Breathe Bless

Book:KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

Source: KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

“I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.”

Thinking Hands Yankees New York Yankees

Author:Sandy Koufax

“They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.”

Should Hands Singing Should Have Toes Yankees New York Yankees Holding Hands

Author:Mickey Mantle

“There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.”

Firsts Home Hands Thirds Balls Clubs Stealing Thrown Bats Yankees Gamble New York Yankees

Author:Casey Stengel

“Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.”

Ifs Knows Wells May Enough Hands Able Guy Left Strong Can Do Hitting This Guy Yankees Strong Enough New York Yankees Fellas Left Handers

Author:Casey Stengel