Carl Sagan Quotes, Taken Quotes, Hands Quotes

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

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... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation.... On the other hand ... by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

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Tags : Abraham Kuyper Quotes , Mean Quotes , Hands Quotes

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Hands Quotes

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

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Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

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Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

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If we are to have the very best Christmas ever, we must listen for the sound of sandaled feet. We must reach out for the Carpenter's hand. With every step we take in his footsteps, we abandon a doubt and gain a truth.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Hands Quotes , Feet Quotes

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Hands Quotes , Air Quotes

If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Hands Quotes , Always Trying Quotes

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Hands Quotes

Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Men Quotes , Hands Quotes

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

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Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Hands Quotes

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Hands Quotes , Eden Quotes

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Hands Quotes , Order Quotes

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Hands Quotes , Length Quotes