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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Self-sabotage
Eric Hoffer

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Responsibility
Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Sin
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Democracy
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
Biography
Richard Holmes

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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Stupidity
Elbert Hubbard

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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Neighbors
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
Words
Pearl Strachan Hurd

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After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
Crime and Criminals
John Huston

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Life and Living
Thomas Jefferson

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.
Money
Jewish Proverb

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Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Gossip
Jewish Proverb

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity
Anxiety
Chuck Jones

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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
Blame
Erica Jong

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There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
Opportunity
Charles F. Kettering

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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Language
Karl Kraus

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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Women
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Motivation
Donald Laird

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Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
Pornography
Angela Lambert

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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Death and Dying
Walter Savage Landor

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The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
Service
Laurence Leamer

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Life and Living
H. T. Leslie

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Oppression
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
Time and Time Management
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun