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“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”

Ifs Want Use Hands Left Practice Masters Overcoming Difficulty Constant Insignificant Adapted Left Hand

Author:Pliny the Elder

“There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.”

Mind Wells Book Hands Left Written Pages Enormous Well Written Left Hand Redundancy

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”

Doe Art Said Play Facts Hands Left Work Strange Fingers Reactions Thank God Dedication Hiking Bloody San Francisco Enslavement Left Hand Boulders Hurling

Author:Pablo Casals

“Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.”

People Hands Left Painting Mass Built Productions Scales Irrelevant Pyramids Cathedrals Nothing New Left Hand Mass Production

Author:Ai Weiwei

“When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.”

Knows Hands Left Philanthropy Left Hand Alms Sermon On The Mount

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”

Writing Hands Left Eating Including Knives Left Hand

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Years Made Hands Earth Law Turns Left Stars Common Blood Planets Years Ago Physics Billions Iron Chemistry Molecules Stardust Left Hand

Author:Jill Tarter

“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

“Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances”

Wells Hands Left Chance Drawing Take A Chance Left Hand

Author:Bob Dylan

“You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.”

Ifs Hands Running Able Spirit Energy Left Five Regret Genius Bases Rage Miles Dawn Thirty Intuitive Beef Unfinished Present Time Left Hand Saturated Organic Food Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.”

Writing Hands Left Germany Left Hand Oddities

Author:Kurt Tucholsky

“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.”

Writing May Use Hands Left Knowing Accounts Inferiors Left Hand Knowing Myself

Author:John Milton

“Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.”

War Hands Left Causes Psychology Environment Crime Conflict Strikes Commit Carrie Categories Distress Womb Neighbour Left Hand

Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.”

Thinking Writing Mind Hands Able Left Dues Complaining Engaged Of My Mind Personal Relationships Left Hand

Author:Rebecca West

“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“The only way for a relationship to survive, I think, is to have no sex at all. After all, you marry for friendship, for companionship - and passion after a while ... pfffft. I mean, does it excite you when your left hand touches your right?”

Thinking Way Mean Doe Hands Passion Left Sex Companionship Left Hand

Book:Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

Source: Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman

“My left hand is my thinking hand. The right is only a motor hand. This holds the hammer. The left hand, the thinking hand, must be relaxed, sensitive. The rhythms of thought pass through the fingers and grip of this hand into the stone.”

Thinking Hands Left Stones Fingers Rhythm Sensitive Relaxed Sculpture Hammers Motor Left Hand

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.”

People Ifs Looks Hands Left Lines Missing Skins Fingers Rings Businessman Tempting Left Hand Wedding Ring

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.”

“The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and, as you do so, touch your chest. You will automatically touch your heart chakra.”

Heart Hands Left Meditation Buddhism Chests Chakra Left Hand Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.”

Way Littles Hands Bigs Able Left Fingers Operations Splits Twisted Left Hand

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.”

Heart Ideas Hands Left Fingers Mythology Rings Poetic Dreamer Nails Polish Left Hand Nail Polish Palmistry

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?”

Looks Children Stills Hands Fall Left Forget Talking Figures Development Aspect Doctors Tables Constant Best Things Meals Seats Grandmother Comment Steady Sassy Diapers Left Hand

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.”

Children Hands Left Watches Waste Lifetime Busy Satisfied My Children Servant Heels Left Hand Busy Work

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say that he bought a left-hand glove and a right- hand glove, but not that he bought a left-hand glove, a right- hand glove, and a pair of gloves. 'She came home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair' is a well known joke based on the absurdity of conjoining terms of different types. Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds.”

Source: The Concept of Mind

“Did the Almighty, holding in his right hand truth, and in his left hand search after truth, deign to proffer me the one I might prefer, in all humility, but without hesitation, I should request search after truth.”

Should Hands Might Truth Left Humility Almighty Request Hesitation Left Hand

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Not even let your left hand know when your right hand is donating”

Knows Hands Left Left Hand

Author:Sivaji Ganesan

“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?”

Inspirational States Hands Funny Left Milk Graduates Cows Graduation Left Hand Dakota North Dakota

Author:Bobby Heenan

“If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.”

Ifs Ends Hands Turns Left Sides Middle Fronts Serious And Off Left Hand Overdrive

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

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