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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

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Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

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Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

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At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil?

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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

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Hold the hand of the child within you. For this child, nothing is impossible.

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The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

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My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

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Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.

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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

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