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Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.: Author Unknown
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.: Author Unknown
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.: Karl Shapiro
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.: Robert M. Persig
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.: Langston Hughes
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

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