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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they’ll add, 'I’ll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don’t say anything else.: Douglas Coupland
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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.: Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Ajax
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.: Brendan Francis
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