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“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.”

Two Hands Choices Embrace Two Choices

Author:Andrew Niccol

“There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.”

Way Two Hands Attitude Prejudice Ignorant Indifference Bias Indifferent Avoided Two Ways Bias And Prejudice

Author:Charles Curtis

“You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.”

Inspirational Two Use Hands Brain Two Things Mechanism Machinery

Author:Rajneesh

“I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.”

Kind Stills Two Hands Eye Mines Ems Friendly Offensive Spiders Crawling

Author:Colley Cibber

“Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.”

Giving Two Hands Two Hands

Book:Whiteman

Source: Whiteman

“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”

“I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.”

Thinking Knows Two Hands Kids Destiny Fate Happened Achieve Greatness Luck Heavy My Sister Metals Heavy Metal

Author:Eric Avery

“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.”

“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”

Want Feels Years Two Hands Lasts Father Left Mines Dad Paper Late Letters Sick Trade Filled My Dad Busy Connected Legacy Too Late Touched Two Years Hug Notebook Too Busy Handwriting

Author:Lakshmi Pratury

“When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.”

People Two War Real Hands Political Groups Economic Sake Significance Opposing Robbers

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.”

Giving Two Hands Hoot

Author:Randeep Hooda

“Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.”

Two Hands Fighting Asks Heaven Liberty Couple Victory Blessing Eternal Remains Swear Undertakings Eternal Love

Book:The Physiology of Marriage

Source: The Physiology of Marriage

“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

Thinking Way Two Hands Together Generations Magic Particular Smart Machines Method Someday Artificial Intelligence Improving Being Smart Maybe Someday

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.”

Men Said Two Hands Sleep Rooms Window Accounts Asking Hotel Guests Jumping Joints Hand In Hand Downtown Clerks Ritz

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health, and life tiptoes around in the horned shadow of death. The trick is to recognize which is which and to recognize what you're dealing with at the time.”

World Two Sometimes Hands Faces Walks Flower Shadow Tricks Sickness Weed Ugliness Hand In Hand Tiptoes Shadow Of Death Health And Life

Author:Tiffany Baker

“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.”

Ifs Believe Doe Two Hands Doubt Essentials Vices Disaster Rational Faculty Vice Versa

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.”

Way Persons Made Two Hands Lying Dresses Buying End Times Spend Time Impart Stitches Two Hands Quilts

Author:Natalie

“When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).”

May Two Hands Choices Easy Decision Technology Thirds Mathematics University Arrogance Department Professors Invites September Invitations Beard Analysts Sandals Munich

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Enough Problem Hands Action Individual Difficult Common Pressure Institutions Saving Human Soul Heresy Vigorous Reconcile Hazards Coerce

Author:Jacques Barzun

“Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.”

Two Hands Pieces Iphone Outdated Crank

Author:David Letterman

“I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.”

Two Hands Grows Indian Goddess

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.”

Men Should Trying Humans Two Soul Hands Fall Progress Wings Height Materialism Superstitions Soar Science And Religion Human Soul Slough Quagmire

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.”

“It has been observed that the height of a man from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot is equal to the distance between the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in a straight line.”

Men Has Beens Two Hands Lines Feet Middle Equal Distance Fingers Height Sole Crowns Straight Lines Two Hands Middle Finger

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (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 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.”

“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

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

Firsts Heart Two Hands Found Beauty Truth Is Chiefs Prize Beautiful Women Second Chance Laborers

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.”

World Humans Two War Hands Choices Evil Human Beings Clean Good And Evil You Choose Nazi Two Evils Clean Hands

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god.”

Ifs Heart Two Hands Together Idols True God Faith And God

Book:The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther

Source: The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther

“It seems significant that according to quantum physics the indestructibility of energy on one hand which expresses its timeless existence and the appearance of energy in space and time on the other hand correspond to two contradictory (complementary) aspects of reality. In fact, both are always present, but in individual cases the one or the other may be more pronounced.”

Source: Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

“I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.”

World I Can Two Hands My Own Changing The World Better Place Kinder Two Hands

Author:Ben Harper

“No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.”

Men Feels Two Hands Known Honest

Author:Nixon Waterman

“In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.”

Two Hands Together White Seasons Rose Autumn Hand In Hand Wild Roses

Book:Lyrical Poems

Source: Lyrical Poems

“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

“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.”

“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

“If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean Two Hands Hours Lines Five Four Sea Arms Six Rivers Weight Fishes Nine Boat Lakes Fishing Pounds Length Casting

Author:Ted Trueblood

“Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.”

“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.”

Ifs Knows Men World Two Hands Asks Emotion Our Lives This World Ego Intelligent Possession Significant Day To Day Compelled Day Life Day To Day Life Upper Hand

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self.”

Ifs Knows Two Self Hands Desire Can Do Battle Conflict Conscious Negative Seeking Subconscious Opposing Being Positive Nervousness

Author:Lester Levenson

“I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.”

Want Persons Two Sometimes Hands Actors Stars Walks Huge Priorities Hand In Hand Great Actors

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.”

Looks May Two Moments Hands Eye Opportunity Speak Pressure Mere Lips Doom Trifles Moments Of Life Great Moments

Book:Pendennis

Source: Pendennis

“When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.”

Two Hands Literature Class Genius Originals Medicine Depth Nonsense Divided Second Hand Quacks Erudition

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words