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- Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
- William Cecil Burleigh
- Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
- Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
- I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to Count Diodati, 1807
- You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
- Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
- Andy Rooney (1919 - )
- Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
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