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There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

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Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

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I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.

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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.

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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

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You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

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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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